Defendant offers no authority establishing that the requirements of Pulliam and Kabala govern under these circumstances. Such authority would make it too easy for a defendant to dispose of a key evidentiary item and then use the item's absence to exclude any other evidence about it. We decline to follow this path. Defendant's right to cross-examine the witnesses gave him an opportunity to expose their alleged unreliability to the jury. Considering this opportunity, and the foregoing concern over disposal of evidence, we are convinced that outright exclusion of the witness' testimony is unwarranted.
Defendant also claims that the testimony was inadmissible hearsay.
262 Ill. App. Neither party has cited, and we have not found, an Illinois case addressing the issue of whether testimony about conduct observed on a missing videotape is hearsay. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania has addressed this issue and determined that such testimony is not hearsay. 286 Ill. App. We also note that the testimony about defendant's voice appearing on the tape was not hearsay.