On May 23, 1957, police in Cleveland searched the home of Dollree Mapp, an act that infuriated Ms. Mapp and made legal history. After she balked at letting them in, they forced her door. They claimed, ...

On Oct. 31, the day after her 91 st birthday, Ms. Dollree Mapp, of the 1961 landmark Supreme Court decision, Mapp v. Ohio, died. Her passing, which was not widely reported when it happened, bears ...

The call to the police came in at three in the morning. An explosion had obliterated the front porch and door to the home of a gangster known simply as “The Kid.” When Dolly Mapp heard the news, she ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may not know who Dollree “Dolly” Mapp was, but it was her case in 1961 that opened up a new era of due process rights for ...

Anyone who has ever watched a TV show about police and the courts knows the rule: Illegally obtained evidence is not admissible in a trial. We expect it. We consider it a constitutional right. But ...

This is the 10th part in an ongoing series on seminal cases in American law. Sometimes, law can be downright colorful. Perhaps never more so than in the seminal case of Mapp versus Ohio and the “fruit ...

WASHINGTON — 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. Dollree Mapp died Oct. 31 in ...