The News-Gazette · Apr 2, 2016
Prosecutors seek hearsay rule exception in Jaylon Tate case
Jaylon Tate, center, accompanied by his attorneys, Tom Bruno, right, and Evan Bruno, appear before media following his arraignment before Associate Judge Brett Olmstead at the Champaign County Courthouse in Urbana on Monday, March 14, 2016.URBANA — Champaign County prosecutors want to use statements Jaylon Tate's girlfriend made shortly after she was allegedly struck by the University of Illinois basketball player.
The state filed motions this week asking a judge to allow the hearsay statements that Hailey Pieruccini reportedly made separately to three friends early on March 12 under the "excited utterance" exception to the rule against hearsay testimony.