Mapp V. Ohio Case Study

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The federal court case of Mapp V. Ohio was a very important landmark case for the United States Supreme Court in relation to the fourth amendment and this case was also the first case where the exclusionary rule was applied. Mapp’s house was illegally searched by police from an anonymous tip and evidence of reason for police to show up was never found. The legal provision for this case was the fourth amendment. The appellant was Dollree Mapp and the appellee was Ohio. This took place in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was argued Wednesday, March 29th 1961 and was decided, Monday June 19th 1961. The decision of the case was six judges voted for Mapp and three judges voted against Mapp at the Supreme Court. Mapp V. Ohio is a very important case when …show more content…
This historic decision, placed a requirement of excluding any illegally obtained evidence from court at all levels of the government. Also this case is very important because it was the first case to apply the exclusionary rule in a state prosecution. This is important because most convictions are given in the state court system not the federal court system. The issue of this case is, should evidence discovered during a search and seizure steered in violation of the fourth amendment of the constitution shall be admissible in a state court? The Cleveland police department received an anonymous call to tip that Dollree Mapp was housewarming a suspected bombing fugitive. On May 23rd, 1957, three Cleveland police officers arrived to her home and demanded for it to be searched without the legal search warrant. At their arrival the officers knocked on the door and demanded to come into the residence …show more content…
Kennedy inaugurated as the thirty-fifth president of the United States of America, the Berlin wall is constructed to separate East and West Germany adding to heighten the cold war and west side story a musical-movie about Puerto Ricans and Italians sharing a part of the city over turf and race relations and all goes to chaos when one member from each fall in love with each other is released. The warren court (1953-1969), headed by chief justice Earl Warren, his leadership was instrumental in using judicial review to strictly go after and overturn multiple state and federal statutes. The court was able to become a figure of change in a tumultuous and difficult time in America. This court brought attention of cases like Mapp V. Ohio, Brown V. Board of Education and Miranda V. Arizona. Brown V. Board of Education overturned the previous case of Plessy V. Ferguson, which had previously set segregation on public transportation and public schools. The court made the issue that the state-sponsored racial segregation of public schools violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment which is “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the
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