Dale Glenn Middleton v. State of Florida – Revised Opinion

Summary

The court affirmed Middleton’s first-degree murder conviction and death sentence. It struck the avoid-arrest and cold, calculated, and premeditated aggravators, but held those errors harmless because the remaining aggravators, limited mitigation, unanimous death recommendation, and sentencing findings supported the sentence. The court also upheld admission of Middleton’s confession, the sufficiency of the evidence, and the trial court’s rulings concerning continuance and mitigation-investigation funding.