Ms. Mapp was 82 when Ms. Long interviewed her, still angry about how she and other black Clevelanders were dealt with by a largely white police force and still fuming over those “nosy sons of a bitch.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that shook the criminal justice system. The case arose out of Cleveland. In May of 1957, police arrived at 14705 Milverton Rd.