An appeals court has ordered up new forensic tests in a 40-year-old suburban murder case.The 2nd District Appellate Court this week granted a request for new tests from a man who confessed to the 1978 murder of a taxi driver Peter Moreno in Elmhurst.A panel on Tuesday wrote that hair, fingerprints, a handgun and a cigarette package recovered from the crime scene can be subjected to tests that weren’t available at the time the defendant, Phillip LaPointe, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.Justice Mary …