People v. J.S.

PRESIDING JUSTICE SULLIVAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Respondents were charged in delinquency petitions with aggravated battery and home invasion. Following a bench trial they were found to be delinquent, adjudicated wards of the State, and committed to the Department of Corrections. On appeal respondents contend that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence complainant’s preliminary hearing testimony and a statement that she made to her niece the morning after the offenses occurred.

The State’s principal witness was Julian Samaniego, who had been charged in an information with…