People v. Radovick

Defendant, Ronald Radovick, was indicted and convicted following a jury trial of the first degree murder of Regina Newton. The trial court entered judgment and subsequently sentenced defendant to a term of 75 years in the Department of Corrections. Defendant now appeals.

Regina Newton was forcibly drowned in the late evening hours of April 2, 1991, near the Maple Lake fisherman’s overlook in the Cook County Forest Preserve. She had been severely beaten before being killed. While defendant admitted at his trial that he, John Janes and another friend, Donald Grant, were near the scene of the…