SC20408 - State v. Brown (“On appeal, the defendant claims that the evidence was
insufficient to support his conviction of felony murder. Specifically, he
contends that there was no evidence that he intended to commit a larceny, that
he committed a larceny, or that he used or threatened the immediate use of
physical force to effectuate a taking, as required to establish that he
committed robbery in the third degree. The defendant also contends that, if
this court agrees with his claim of insufficient evidence of felony murder, it
cannot reinstate his vacated conviction of the intentional manslaughter in the
first degree charge because the state failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt
that he did not shoot the victim in self-defense. Finally, the defendant claims
that his conviction must be reversed because the prosecutor engaged in
prosecutorial improprieties during closing argument. We reject the defendant’s
insufficiency claim and, therefore, need not address his claim related to the
manslaughter conviction. We also reject the defendant’s claims of prosecutorial
impropriety and, therefore, affirm the judgment of the trial court.”)