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Dollree Mapp (October 30, 1923 – October 31, 2014) was the appellant in the Supreme Court case Mapp v. Ohio (1961). She argued that her right to privacy in her home, the Fourth Amendment , was violated by police officers who entered her house with what she thought to be a fake search warrant. [ 1 ]
Miss Elizabeth Mapp presides over the High Street of the seaside town of Tilling, keeping tabs on all of the gossip, and directing social activity. She competes in bitter rivalry with a neighbor, Godiva Plaistow, over dress-making, and observes the battles over golf and alcohol between Captain Richard Puffin and Major Benjamin Flint.
Brian Masters says in The Life of E.F. Benson, "It was a bold stroke to risk the clash of Titans in Mapp and Lucia, effected in the simplest manner by having Mrs. Lucas rent Miss Mapp's house in tilling for a period of two months... It is much to Benson's credit that he contrives a preposterous climax without losing the reader's sympathy."
Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that the exclusionary rule, which prevents a prosecutor from using evidence that was obtained by violating the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, applies to states as well as the federal government.
Title page of Miss Mapp, 1922.. Benson was a precocious and prolific writer. His first book was Sketches from Marlborough, published while he was a student.He started his novel-writing career with the (then) fashionably controversial Dodo (1893), [further explanation needed] which was an instant success, [citation needed] and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural ...
By a unanimous decision in the case of Weeks v. United States, 232 U.S. 383 (1914), [2] the Supreme Court adopted the "exclusionary rule". This rule declared that, in most circumstances, evidence obtained through an illegal search and seizure could not be used as admissible evidence in a criminal trial. (This decision adopted the rule only on ...
MAPP or Mapp may refer to: MAPP gas, a fuel for brazing and soldering torches; Mapp (surname) Mid-continent Area Power Pool, a part of the American Midwest Reliability Organization; Mapp Biopharmaceutical, manufacturers of ZMapp Ebola vaccine; Mapp and Lucia, a series of novels featuring Miss Mapp
Brown v. Mississippi, 297 U.S. 278 (1936), was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that a defendant's involuntary confession that is extracted by the use of force on the part of law enforcement cannot be entered as evidence and violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.