People v. Beasley

Defendant, Otis Beasley, was charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault (three counts), criminal sexual assault (three counts) and unlawful restraint. The first counts were predicated on the unlawful restraint charge. Following a jury trial, he was convicted of criminal sexual assault and was sentenced to serve 30 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. He now appeals, raising the following claims: (1) whether the trial court committed error in not admitting a medical report of the victim’s treating physician under the past-recollection-recorded hearsay exception; (2) whether…