State v. Bridgers

OPINION

SILVERMAN, J.

Defendants robbed a bank, taking money from several bank employees and threatening several customers at gunpoint. At trial, the court told the jury to consider, among other things, whether Defendants robbed the customers from whom nothing was taken. The jury convicted on all counts. Now, Defendants ask the court to reconsider whether, as a matter of law, threatening a bystander while robbing someone else also makes the bystander a robbery victim. In other words, can it be said that a person who was not the subject of a theft was, nonetheless, robbed?

I

At this point, there…