BURNS v. STATE

No. 4D22-3247.

361 So.3d 372 (2023)

Richard BURNS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

[May 24, 2023.]


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ari S. Goldberg and Lawrence M. Meltzer of Meltzer & Bell, P.A., West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Ashley Moody , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Alexandra A. Folley , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for respondent.


That a person's home is his or her "castle" is one of the most basic tenets of our jurisprudence.1 However, for Richard Burns ("Burns"), charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for openly carrying and loading his firearm in the yard of his own home, the...

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