Middleton v. State

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

David Middleton II was charged with kidnapping and first-degree robbery, based on allegations that he and two accomplices robbed a pizza delivery person at gunpoint, then forced the victim into a car and drove the victim around the block, attempting to convince the victim to deliver one more pizza and then surrender the purchase money to them.

Middleton defended these charges by asserting that the whole episode was devised by the pizza delivery person, Burim Limani. According to Middleton, Limani wanted to steal money from his employer, so he enlisted Middleton and his…