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PEOPLE v. LOFTON

Nos. 87382, 87434.

740 N.E.2d 782 (2000)

194 Ill.2d 40

251 Ill.Dec. 496

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Anthony W. LOFTON, Appellee. The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Richard Stewart, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

November 22, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and David R. Akemann, State's Attorney, St. Charles (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, William L. Browers and Jay Paul Hoffmann, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, Martin P. Moltz, and Gregory L. Slovacek, Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Elgin, of counsel), for the People in No. 87382.

G. Joseph Weller, Deputy Defender, and Darren E. Miller, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Elgin, for appellee in No. 87382.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and John C. Piland, State's Attorney, Urbana (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, William L. Browers and Jay Paul Hoffmann, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, Robert J. Biderman, and Kathy Shepard, Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Springfield, of counsel), for the People in No. 87434.

Daniel D. Yuhas, Deputy Defender, and John M. McCarthy, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for appellee in No. 87434.

Chief Justice HARRISON delivered the opinion of the court:

In both of these cases, consolidated here, the defendant was convicted of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child. In one, cause No. 87382, we consider the right of confrontation granted by the United States Constitution and the Illinois Constitution (U.S. Const., amend. VI; Ill. Const. 1970, art. I, § 8). In the other, cause No. 87434, we consider the right of due process granted by the United States...

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