Time is not always kind to the people whose names get attached to landmark legal cases. Ernesto Miranda, the defendant whose 1966 Supreme Court case forced police to ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professors Carolyn Long and Renee Hutchins talked about the background of Dollree Mapp and the events that led to the Supreme Court Case Mapp v. Ohio ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may not know who Dollree “Dolly” Mapp was, but it was her case in 1961 that opened up a new era of due process rights for ...

In 1961 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a watershed decision holding local police officers and prosecutors accountable under the Fourth Amendment. Writing for the majority in Mapp v. Ohio, Justice Tom ...

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 ...

An important measure of success is resilience in the face of attack. If so, the achievement of the Supreme Court in Mapp v. Ohio — the decision spelling out the modern meaning of the Fourth Amendment ...

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 ...

Dollree Mapp, a woman who stood up to police trying to search her Ohio home in 1957 and ultimately won a landmark Supreme Court decision on searches and seizures, has died. Mapp died Oct. 31 in ...

Dollree Mapp, who challenged a police search of her home, leading to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1961 that extended the “exclusionary rule” protecting citizens from illegal searches and ...

Time is not always kind to the people whose names get attached to landmark legal cases. Ernesto Miranda, the defendant whose 1966 Supreme Court case forced police to ...