Court Opinion

ID: 9860927
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 23:36:58.320603+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:26:54.407534
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE COOK, specially concurring: I dissented in Beard because the trial court refused to consider evidence of the witness’s recantation, on the basis that it was hearsay, and the witness was not called at the posttrial hearing. Beard, 356 Ill. App. 3d at 246-47, 825 N.E.2d at 362-63 (Cook, P.J., dissenting). In the present case, in contrast, the trial court properly considered C.E’s testimony of what she supposedly heard K.S. say, and K.S. took the stand and denied making the statements alleged by C.E