People v. Blakely

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed. Testimony at the suppression hearing established that the defendant was a passenger in a taxicab which approached a marked police cruiser at 3:15 a.m. When the taxi was a quarter of a block away the police observed that its high beam lights were flashed and the horn was blown. It appears that the use of the high beam light by a cab driver is a signal of trouble, pursuant to the police department’s temporary operating procedure. The officers followed the cab until it stopped in the middle of the street. The…