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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.
8. Dez. 2014 · Dollree Mapp challenged illegal police search and seizure in her 1957 case, Mapp v. Ohio, that changed American law. Learn about her life, from Mississippi to Cleveland to New York, and her bold defiance of white officers.
10. Dez. 2014 · A woman who lived there, Dollree Mapp, refused to admit them. It was a small gesture of defiance that led to a landmark United States Supreme Court ruling on the limits of police power. Ms....
Dollree Map: Central to the case. Police searched her house without a warrant, and charged her with possession of obscene materials. Inconsequential, but interesting, details about her life include: she was the ex-wife of Jimmy Bivens, a famous boxer; and she was a "known friend" of those who ran the gambling rings in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the exclusionary rule, which prevents prosecutors from using evidence in court that was obtained by violating the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, applies not only to the federal government but also to the state governments.
11. Dez. 2014 · Mapp challenged the warrantless search of her home by police in 1957 and won a major ruling that extended the exclusionary rule to state courts. The rule prevents courts from admitting evidence obtained through police misconduct.
27. Okt. 2020 · The woman behind the ruling, Dollree “Dolly” Mapp, died six weeks ago in a small town in Georgia, with virtually no notice paid. She was 91, as best we can tell. Mapp’s life was as colorful...
