Burns v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

On February 3, 1993, appellant Michael Burns entered his workplace possessing firearms, and commenced firing them. As a result, he killed one and wounded eight co-workers. After the state charged Burns with capital murder, seven counts of attempted murder and three counts of aggravated assault, Burns raised the defense of mental disease or defect, and requested a psychiatric examination. Upon receipt of the Arkansas State Hospital’s report, reflecting Burns lacked the capacity to conform his behavior to the law at the time of the shootings, he filed a pretrial motion for…