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Affidavit stating that "Dollree Mapp did unlawfully have in her possession and under her control certain lewd, obscene, and lascivious books and pictures.".
In May 1957, Cleveland Police forced entry into Dollree Mapp's home without a warrant..
The 'Rosa Parks of the Fourth Amendment' dies at 91
On May 23, 1957, three police officers arrived at Dollree Mapp's Cleveland duplex, looking for a man they believed had been involved in a bombing.
Mapp, a streetwise woman who knew her rights, refused to let them in without a search warrant.
They didn't have one.
"Three hours later, I heard glass crashing," Mapp told the Miami Herald many years later, recalling how the officers broke into her home.
They found their suspect but they also arrested Mapp after discovering books and a sketch they alleged were pornography.
Her subsequent conviction on obscenity charges set in motion a climactic legal battle — one that would radically alter policing in America.
In a landmark 1961 ruling, the Supreme Court reversed Mapp's conviction and compelled state courts, including those in Ohio, to throw out evidence obtained illegally — a basic protection under the Fourth Amendment.
Mapp vs.
Ohio became the first in a string of historic deci