Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Battery
Defendant was convicted, after jury trial, of aggravated battery of a child (his son, age 2). No error in court admitting and playing for the jury portions of his videotaped interrogation. The challenged statements of and questions by officers in video were not hearsay, as they were not offered for the truth of the matters asserted, but provided contest for what happened during interrogation and were useful in explaining Defendant's statements and admissions that he struck his son on his bare buttocks, with a belt made of thin leather.(STEIGMANN and DeARMOND, concurring.)