Mapp V Ohio
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- Are you out of your mind? You are not allowed to have this in your house, you have the rights to remain silent!
- You are arrested for these obscene pictures, but there's no bomb this house.
- We have a reason why we have to search your house, we think you have a bomber in this house
- Why do you have to search my house?
- May I help you officers?
- We have a piece of paper stating that we have a search warrant but i cant give you the paper
- You have the right to remain silent, anything can be used against you...
- While searching through a trunk in Mrs. Mapp's house, police officers found obscene photographs. At the time, these types of photographs were illegal to have.
- I do have my rights, you are violating my rights! You were looking for a bomber, not my pictures!
- Police entered Dolltree Mapp's house on May 23, 1957 to search for a suspected bomber in the area. The police did not have a search warrant.
- The Jury finds you guilty on this court date.
- I am going to appeal this to the Supreme Court.
- Mapp v. Ohio 1958-1961Cleveland, Ohio at the home of Dolltree Mapp
- The vote is 6-3 you are dismissed
- Issue: Were the confiscated materials protected from seizure by the Fourth Amendment?
- In 1958, this case was argued in Ohio. Dolltree Mapp was found guilty
- In 1961, the Supreme Court heard her case. They decided in a 6-3 vote that the police violated her 4th Amendment rights. This decision overturned Wolf v. Colorado and also extended the exclusionary rule to state courts. Justices Harlan wrote a dissent arguing that the majority was "reaching out" to decide the case on Fourth Amendment grounds when they should have limited themselves to the First Amendment issue.