Despite having credited the police testimony that the livery cab in which defendants were passengers was being driven without operable brake lights, the hearing court concluded that such stop was simply a pretext to "check out" the two men in the back and that if nothing had been found, no summons would have been issued. Unlike the situation in People v Elam (
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