People v. Speicher

Appeal from an order of the County Court of Schuyler County (Callanan, Sr., J.), entered January 15, 1997, which granted defendant’s motion to suppress evidence.

On August 25, 1996, while assigned to a routine traffic post at the intersection of State Route 414 and County Route 16 in the Town of Dix, Schuyler County, State Trooper Bryan Blum observed defendant and James Brucie traveling in an automobile without their seatbelts secured. Blum stopped the vehicle and noticed an open bottle of beer on the console. When he asked Brucie, the driver of the vehicle, who had the beer, Brucie responded…