People v. Smith

Defendant’s sole claim on appeal that the hearing court *538erred in finding reasonable the police stop of a vehicle in which defendant was a passenger is meritless.

Evidence at the pretrial suppression hearing was that two uniformed police officers, on patrol in a marked radio car, observed a vehicle (in which defendant sat in the front passenger seat) stopped with its two right wheels on the sidewalk. The officers ran a computer check of the vehicle’s license plate number three times from two independent sources and received a report of "no record”. As the report was being checked further by…