People v. Stith

On October 5, 1982 two New York State Troopers, Jeffrey Clifford and Carlos Figueroa, stopped a truck which defendant Cardell Newton was driving and in which defendant Otis Stith was a passenger for speeding on the New York State Thruway. When requested, Newton produced a Connecticut driver’s license but was unable to produce the truck’s registration. Thereupon the license number of Newton and the truck’s license plate were called into police headquarters, and both defendants were ordered out of the truck. Clifford began looking inside the vehicle for the registration. When Clifford saw a…