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Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that the exclusionary rule, which prevents a prosecutor from using evidence that was obtained by violating the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, applies to states as well as the federal government.
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]
In its 1961 decision Mapp v. Ohio, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the exclusionary rule—which prevents the government from using evidence in criminal prosecutions if it had been illegally obtained—applies to the U.S. states as well as to the federal government. In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v.
The Ohio Supreme Court is considering other public records cases that could have sweeping implications for open government. Two cases involve how to interpret Marsy's Law, a voter-approved ...
The Ohio Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Feb. 7 on the question of how much discretion an appeals court has to review or modify a sentence imposed by a trial court.
The Supreme Court heard this case on appeal from the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court, which in Trump v. Anderson , a case brought by Colorado voters, ruled that Trump is disqualified from ...
It was the first U.S. Supreme Court ruling to address free speech rights with respect to homosexuality. Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day, 370 U.S. 348 (1962) Images of naked men are not, per se, obscene, extending Olesen in a way that spurred an increase in same-sex erotica that helped spur the rise of the LGBTQ rights movement later in the decade.
COLUMBUS − The Ohio Supreme Court recently made a ruling regarding wrongful death lawsuits based on faulty medical care related to a case from Coshocton.. In a four to three decision, the court ...