In its July 5 decision in State v. Goldsmith, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that evidence of guns and drugs should have been suppressed because the police officers lacked a sufficient basis to detain the defendant. A key issue was whether the officers were "blocking [defendant's] way" and the only testimony at the suppression hearing came from one of the officers, who testified that they approached the defendant as he was walking out of an "alleyway" or "walkway" adjacent to a vacant house.