People v. Dent

PRESIDING JUSTICE BUCKLEY

delivered the opinion of the court:

After a jury trial, defendant Arthur Dent was convicted of first-degree murder. Defendant appeals his conviction, arguing that he was not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, that the prosecution’s comments regarding the cause of decedent’s death were improper and prejudicial and that the prosecution’s question to defendant of whether it was an initiation rite of his gang to kill a human being was improper and prejudicial.

Defendant was arrested on October 26, 1988, and charged with first-degree murder for the shooting death of…