State v. Basil

In this appeal, the State claims that the Appellate Division erred in overturning defendant Eugene Basil’s conviction of unlawful possession of a shotgun. This ease involves two distinct constitutional issues, both arising from statements made by a young woman who refused to identify herself to police officers who were dispatched to the scene on the report of a man with a gun. The young woman identified defendant as the person who earlier had pointed a shotgun at her and directed the officers to the location of the discarded shotgun.

The first issue is whether the police had probable cause to…