The death of Dollree Mapp, reported this morning in a lovely obituary in the New York Times, caught me unawares. She was an ex-con who had once been engaged to marry the light heavyweight champion ...

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 American citizens. SupremeCourt_inside Mapp was one of the more flamboyant ...

The Elyria YWCA, Lorain County Section of National Council of Negro Women and Lorain Business and Professional Women’s Club along with the Outside Circle Theater Project are recognizing Dollree Mapp, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professors Carolyn Long and Renee Hutchins talked about the background of Dollree Mapp and the events that led to the Supreme Court Case Mapp v. Ohio ...

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 ...

Dollree Mapp, the Cleveland woman who successfully checked police power in a landmark US Supreme Court case, died on October 31 at the age of 90 or 91, according to the New York Times. Police tried to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.

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. Mapp died Oct. 31 in ...

WASHINGTON — A woman who stood up to police trying to search her Ohio home and won a Supreme Court decision on searches and seizures has died. Dollree Mapp died Oct. 31 in Conyers, Ga. Ms. Mapp died ...

In 1961 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a watershed decision holding local police officers and prosecutors accountable under the Fourth Amendment. Writing for the majority in Mapp v. Ohio, Justice Tom ...