Burke v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Burke’s convictions for felony murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. It held that the trial court did not commit plain error by limiting the jury’s consideration of voluntary manslaughter to the malice-murder count or by using a verdict form that omitted voluntary manslaughter as an option under felony murder, because the evidence did not support a voluntary-manslaughter charge. The court also concluded that any instructional or verdict-form error could not have affected the outcome. The unanimous opinion had no separate writings.