Justice BARRY delivered the opinion of the Court:
Defendant Anthony Ortiz was charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of his girlfriend's nine-year-old daughter. Defendant waived his right to a jury trial, and the prosecution proceeded as scheduled with its case-in-chief on April 24, 1989, before Whiteside County Circuit Judge Wilbur Johnson. At 11:45 a.m., midway through the State's direct examination of the child's mother, the prosecuting assistant...
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