People v. Cordero

Defendant, Hector Cordero, was convicted by a jury of the possession of a stolen vehicle (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 951/2, par. 4—103(a)) and resisting a peace officer (1. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 38, par. 31—1). The trial court sentenced defendant to six years’ imprisonment for the stolen vehicle offense. Defendant appeals this conviction, contending that it must be reversed because the State’s case was predicated largely on inadmissible hearsay evidence. We affirm.

Officer Todd Eschman, of the Elgin police department, was en route to an unrelated call on February 20, 1990, when he noticed a…