State v. Harris

Judge WEFING

(temporarily assigned) delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this appeal, we are called upon to consider the relationship between a search conducted pursuant to a warrant issued under *571N.J.S.A. 2C:25-28(j), which permits issuance of a warrant upon reasonable cause, and Article I, paragraph 7 of the New Jersey Constitution and the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, both of which state that no warrant may issue “except upon probable cause.” Specifically, we must decide whether weapons recovered from a defendant’s premises during a search conducted pursuant to a…