People v. Rivas

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Howard Bell, J., at suppression hearing; Alfred Donati, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered June 20, 1996, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3V2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Observation of a livery cab flashing its high beams and weaving from one lane to the other alerted the police to the possibility that something was wrong and gave them the authority to pull the cab over (People v…