People v. Solano

*792On May 14, 1989, at approximately 7:00 A.M., while on routine motor patrol near the intersection of Woodruff Avenue and East 21st Street in Brooklyn, two police officers observed the defendant and a female companion sitting in a car parked in front of a fire hydrant. After watching the defendant’s movements within the vehicle for about a minute, they noticed that the car had orange-colored New York license plates, which were no longer in use by that time. A decision was then made to issue a summons for the expired plates. The officers pulled up to the front of the parked car, the headlights…