Docket Nos. 87382, 87434 cons.-Agenda 10-May 2000.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v.
ANTHONY W. LOFTON, Appellee.-THE PEOPLE OF THE
STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. RICHARD STEWART,
Appellee.
Opinion filed November 22, 2000.
CHIEF JUSTICE HARRISON delivered the opinion of thecourt:
In both of these cases, consolidated here, the defendant wasconvicted of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child. In one,cause No. 87382, we consider the right of confrontation granted bythe United States Constitution and the Illinois Constitution (U.S.Const., amend. VI; Ill. Const. 1970, art. I,