Dennis T. Glover, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed Glover’s first-degree murder conviction, concluding that the circumstantial evidence was sufficient to establish both his identity as the killer and premeditation, and that the trial court properly excluded speculative third-party-perpetrator evidence. It also upheld the rulings concerning a requested counsel-effectiveness inquiry, direct-appeal ineffective-assistance claims, and intellectual disability. The court vacated Glover’s death sentence and remanded for a new penalty phase because the nonunanimous ten-to-two death recommendation produced sentencing error that was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.