A former pro basketball player and five others argued to New York’s top court on Wednesday that the Supreme Court of the United States paved the way for all of their illegal gun possession convictions to be tossed.

The six unrelated appeals were a set of cases that put the legal concept of preservation on center stage, and whose outcome is certain to shape the extent to which New Yorkers will be allowed to carry firearms in public for self-defense.

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