People v. Reno

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE BARRETT

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Ronald Reno, was convicted by a jury for committing the crime of murder in the stabbing of Mrs. Marcia Vespa and sentenced to 100 to 300 years in the Illinois State Penitentiary. Defendant raises three issues on appeal: whether defendant was proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt where the only evidence connecting him to the crime was a thumbprint found three houses away from the scene of the crime; whether the prosecutor’s closing argument, which referred to the fact that the State’s evidence had not been…