People v. Hampton 

Defendant was convicted, after bench trial, of eight counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault with a firearm and two counts of home invasion with a firearm, and sentenced to 84 years in prison. Court properly found that Defendant forfeited his right to confront a witness as Defendant engaged in conduct intended to render witness unavailable to testify against him at trial by mailing letter to witness repeatedly told witness to plead the fifth, and to not "get down on" him; and in recorded phone calls Defendant's mother repeatedly told witness to plead the fifth and to deny that he knew anything. As Defendant made one illegal entry into victim's home, and four acts of four acts of sexual assault, one conviction for home invasion and four convictions for sexual assault should be vacated.(GARCIA and McBRIDE, concurring.)