Where the parties stipulated to the admission of a videotaped statement prior to trial, the fact that the video was hearsay was not sufficient grounds for excluding it.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision by U.S. District Judge Staci M. Yandle, Southern District of Illinois.Reginald Pittman, a pretrial detainee in the Madison County jail hanged himself from the bars of his cell with a blanket.He did not die, but he sustained brain damage that has left him in a vegetative state, cared for entirely by …