PEOPLE v. UPPOLE

No. 3-91-0280.

591 N.E.2d 898 (1992)

228 Ill. App.3d 281

169 Ill.Dec. 394

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ronald W. UPPOLE, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District.

Rehearing Denied June 2, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Funk, argued, Lincoln and John A. Bernardi, Pekin, for Ronald W. Uppole.

Gary F. Gnidovec, States' Attys. Appellate Prosecutor, argued, Ottawa and Erik I. Blanc, State's Atty., Pekin, for the People.


Justice HAASE delivered the opinion of the Court.

The defendant was convicted of the murder of his wife and sentenced to fifty years in the Department of Corrections. The defendant appeals. He claims the trial court erred in conducting voir dire, failed to provide him reasonable access to a law library, and the court's sentence was excessive. We affirm.

On August 2, 1978, the defendant shot and killed his estranged wife, Norma Uppole. The defendant...

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