Presiding Justice FITZGERALD SMITH delivered the opinion of the court:
Following a jury trial, defendant Perry Ward was convicted of criminal sexual assault of Mable M. and sentenced as a Class X offender to 25 years' imprisonment. Defendant appeals, contending the trial court erred by: (1) admitting other-crimes evidence to show defendant's propensity to commit sex crimes; (2) relying during sentencing on evidence of a prior sex crime for which defendant had been...
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