State v. Burnett
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of felony murder, criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied dwelling, and criminal possession of a firearm. The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s convictions, holding (1) the district court erred in preventing Defendant from presenting evidence of other shootings taking place at the residence for the limited purpose of cross-examining crime scene investigators who testified about the manner in which the shooting in this case occurred, but the error was harmless; (2) the district court erred when it did not give a limiting instruction regarding evidence indicating that Defendant had committed other crimes or civil wrongs, but the district court’s ruling was not clearly erroneous; and (3) the district court did not commit prejudicial error in the remainder of its rulings challenged by Defendant.
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