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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. [1]
Dec 8, 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.
Dec 10, 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.
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...
Oct 27, 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 and...
Dec 13, 2014 · Dollree Mapp dies at 91; arrest led to landmark search warrant ruling. By Elaine Woo writer. Dec. 13, 2014 10:21 AM PT. On May 23, 1957, three police officers arrived at Dollree Mapp’s...
Dec 11, 2014 · 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.
