People v. Patrick CA3

BACKGROUND

In May 2020, Patrick entered an occupied hotel room and knocked on the bathroom door. The man inside the bathroom responded, “Ok,” believing his friends had just returned to the room with food. When the man exited the bathroom minutes later, he was surprised to see a semi-naked Patrick watching television in bed. The man’s friends had arrived too, and they asked who Patrick was, but the man replied he did not know. He told Patrick to leave, but Patrick said to wait because two women were coming. The man insisted Patrick leave and after pulling up his pants, Patrick left. After noticing that two cell phones and car keys were missing from the room, the man went looking for Patrick and confronted him at the elevator in the hallway. Patrick insisted he did not have the property, although it was visible in his hand. Patrick eventually threw the phones and keys at the man, indicated he wanted to fight, and tried to punch him. When the man punched back, Patrick fled and forced his way into a nearby hotel room by pushing his hands into the chest of a guest who had opened the door because he heard screaming in the hallway. Minutes earlier, Patrick had knocked on that same door…