Mapp v ohio

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Woman who changed the face of civil rights and made it illegal for police to search without a warrant dies aged 91

The woman who forced the United States to criminalize police searches without a warrant has died at the age of 91.

Dollree Mapp won a landmark 1961 Supreme Court case that transformed civil rights after cops barged into her Ohio apartment and used the findings to charge her with possession of porn.

Her case ultimately prompted the nation's high court to rule that evidence obtained by illegal searches and seizures could not be used in state court.

Defiant: Dollree Mapp's insistence that police have a warrant before searching changed civil rights in the U.S.

The case, Mapp v. Ohio, is a staple of law school textbooks and considered a milestone case on the Fourth Amendment, which requires law enforcement officers to get a warrant before conducting a search.

Mapp died on October 31 in Conyers, Georgia.

A relative and caretaker, Carolyn Mapp, confirmed her death Wednesday and said she died on the day after her birthday at the age of 91.

She made her name af

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Dollree Mapp dies at 91; arrest led to landmark search warrant ruling

On May 23, 1957, three police officers arrived at Dollree Mapp’s Cleveland duplex, looking for a man they believed had been involved in a bombing. Mapp, a streetwise woman who knew her rights, refused to let them in without a search warrant.

They didn’t have one.

“Three hours later, I heard glass crashing,” Mapp told the Miami Herald many years later, recalling how the officers broke into her home.

They found their suspect but they also arrested Mapp after discovering books and a sketch they alleged were pornography. Her subsequent conviction on obscenity charges set in motion a climactic legal battle—one that would radically alter policing in America.

In a landmark 1961 ruling, the Supreme Court reversed Mapp’s conviction and compelled state courts, including those in Ohio, to throw out evidence obtained illegally—a basic protection under the 4th Amendment.

Mapp vs. Ohio became the first in a string of historic decisions in the 1960s that redefined the rights of the accused. In 1963, the case of drifter C

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Dollree Mapp

Dollree Mapp
Born	Dollree Mapp October 30, 1923 (1923-10-30) Forest, Mississippi, U.S.
Died	October 31, 2014(2014-10-31) (aged 91) Conyers, Georgia, U.S.
Burial place	Queens, New York, U.S.
Other names	Dolly
Known for	Appellant in Mapp v. Ohio
Criminal charge(s)	Possession of Obscene Material and Possession of Illegal Drugs
Spouse	Jimmy Bivins
Partner	Archie Moore
Children	Barbara Bivins
Relatives	Carolyn Mapp

Dollree Mapp (October 30, 1923 – October 31, 2014) was the appellant in the Supreme Court case Mapp v. Ohio (1961). She argued that her right to privacy in her home, the Fourth Amendment, was violated by police officers who entered her house with what she thought to be a fake search warrant.^[1] Mapp also argued that the Exclusionary Rule was violated due to the collection of the evidence that was found after the police had entered her house without a convincing search warrant according to Mapp's experience.^[2] In the Supreme Court case, Mapp v. Ohio, the dec