Calvert v. State

Geoffrey William Calvert was tried on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of aimed robbery in connection with two shootings which occurred on 28 February 1995 at the Lopez Plaza, a shopping center in Palm Bay, Florida. Kris Miller and Matthew Amos were shot in the head during a prearranged drug buy. At trial, the evidence showed that Calvert and two other youths, Dennis Calabrese and Robert McKevitt, had planned to rob Miller of the drugs instead of paying him as agreed. Fearing retaliation by Miller, the three decided to kill Miller and anyone who might accompany him to Lopez…