People v. Rutledge 

Defendant was convicted, after bench trial, of aggravated battery of a police officer and sentenced to Class X term of ten years imprisonment. Court properly admitted evidence of Defendant's "other crimes" in having struck woman in the face and demanding sexual favors, as this background was necessary to explain how off-duty police intervened when victim sought refuge in his garage, and placed himself between her and Defendant. State is not required to present watered-down version of events because otherwise highly probative evidence is unflattering to Defendant, and this evidence was not unfairly prejudicial. A defendant sentenced as a Class X offender is required to serve the Class X term of three years MSR. (HALL and HOFFMAN, concurring.)