People v. Klytta

At a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Cook County the defendant, Robert Klytta, was charged with the offenses of burglary, theft and criminal trespass to a vehicle. The jury found him not guilty of theft and burglary, but guilty of criminal trespass to a vehicle. As a result of this conviction the defendant’s probation, granted in a prior case, was revoked. He now appeals from both the conviction and the revocation of his probation.

The issues for review are whether the defendant was deprived of a fair trial because the prosecutor’s remarks during closing arguments were inflammatory and…