PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The Mapp vs Ohio Supreme Court case impacted the nation.
The case was argued on March 29th of 1961 and decided on June 19th of the same year.
The justices involved were Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Tom C. Clark, John M. Harlan II,William J Brennan Jr., Charles E. Whittaker, and Potter Stewart.
The Chief Justice was Earl Warren.
The Mapp vs Ohio court case was a very important case for criminal procedure. It debated that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment could not be used in criminal prosecution. Thought to be hiding a suspect, Dollree Mapp was searched without a warrant and was taken to trial over evidence found.
Dollree Mapp's lawyer was A.L Kearns. The prosecutor was John Corrigan.
The majority opinion was that the evidence obtained was not okay to use without a warrant, because otherwise the documentation would be worthless.
The dissenting opinion argued that the justices themselves had not been briefed enough to decide the case. The real issue, they thought, was whether or not the law upheld the fourteenth amendment.
The case started in the state of Ohio, after a woman was suspected of holding a bomb suspect and police officers tried to search her house with a fake warrant.
The case was appealed twice before it made it to the Supreme Court.
