People v. Thompson

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed and a new trial ordered.

At defendant’s trial on charges of burglary, sodomy and related offenses, defense counsel constructed a defense around the inconsistencies between complainant’s initial version to the police and her later Grand Jury and trial testimony. After the complaining witness completed her testimony, the arrest ing officer testified that he had interviewed the complainant in her apartment, and at the hospital a few hours after the incident, and that nothing she stated during the later interview…