People v. Smith

PRESIDING JUSTICE HOLDRIDGE

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant was charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse of his granddaughter. In this interlocutory appeal, the State contends that the trial court erred by refusing to admit certain evidence of the defendant’s alleged sexual abuse of other female relatives to show his propensity to commit the charged offense. We affirm.

FACTS

The defendant was charged by information with aggravated sexual abuse of his eight-year-old granddaughter, A.P. The information alleges that defendant knowingly fondled A.P.’s vagina in June 2005.

The…