People v. Jones

Chief Judge STERNBERG

dissenting.

The majority reverses this conviction because it concludes that the trial court erred in admitting hearsay statements of the victim and her brother without giving contemporaneous cautionary instructions. I agree that the court erred in this regard; however, since cautionary instructions were given at three different times during the testimony of the witnesses and a fourth time as one of the regular instructions, I see no prejudice to defendant that requires reversal.

As noted in the majority opinion, nine witnesses testified in greater or lesser detail…