People v. Thompson

The essential facts are as follows:

At approximately 1:00 a.m. on September 3, 1987, defendant encountered the complainant, Lisa Cullen, on St. Mark’s Place in Manhattan. Cullen, who was an acquaintance of defendant, angrily confronted him about $5 which she and a friend had given him to procure "pot” for them a month earlier. Cullen accused defendant of having neither returned with the marihuana nor refunded the money. Defendant denied the accusation, claiming that he had in fact returned, but had been unable to find Cullen.

Immediately prior to being stopped on the street by Cullen, defendant…