Mapp vs Ohio

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Mapp vs Ohio DeVry University The case of Mapp vs. Ohio helped the United States establish the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment and helped the citizens establish protected rights against unreasonable searches and seizures. The Fourteenth Amendment in addition helps give and protect equal rights to all people of the United States. The facts of the case are this, Dollree Mapp was suspected of hiding a person suspected in a bombing in her place of residence in Cleveland Ohio. The police went and knocked on her door demanding to come in. Dollree refused to let them in without a warrant. The police left and watched the house for a few hours before returning. They demanded to come in again, holding a piece of paper up to her (a warrant). While searching her home they found a trunk with pornographic materials inside, which was against the law to have at that time. The police arrested her and took her to jail. The police never provided a warrant to Dollree or her attorney. Dollree appealed the case to the State of Ohio and was denied. She later appealed to the US Supreme Court and it was determined that the evidence was obtained through an illegal search. Dollree and her attorney said that based on founded laws, the police had no right to come in to Dollree Mapp’s residence without proper warrants to search. The police only showed a piece of paper, not close up, and couldn’t provide a copy of the warrant at the time of her sentencing. The pornographic materials thus obtained, were illegally obtained and should not have been held as evidence in the case. Dollree had first appealed to the Ohio State Court, but to no avail. She then appealed to the US Supreme Court, who decided that what the police had done was unconstitutionally wrong. They violated Dollree’s rights and searched her home without a proper search warrant. “The police tactics were deemed

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