The first criminal case Anthony C. Raccuglia tried as a LaSalle County assistant state’s attorney was a murder case that garnered national attention.Raccuglia was licensed to practice only about a year before he was named the lead prosecutor in the trial of Chester Weger, who was charged with the deaths of three women in what became known as the Starved Rock murders of 1960.Raccuglia, who was 27 at the time, was mostly unfazed by this type of challenge, said 13th Judicial Circuit Judge Marc P. Bernabei. The trial …