MAPP V. OHIO
Year: 1961
Result: 6:3, favor Mapp
Related Constitutional issue/amendment: 4th amendment (unreasonable search and seizure)
Civil Rights or Civil Liberties: Liberties
Significance/Precedent: The exclusionary rule is applied to the states, therefore strengthening the power of the 4th and 5th amendments and ultimately the right to privacy in the 9th amendment. The exclusionary rule also laid out violating principles taken into account in the good-faith exception.
Quote from majority opinion: "If letters and private documents can thus be seized and held and used in evidence against a citizen accused of an offense, the protection of the Fourth Amendment declaring his right to be secure against such searches and seizures is of no value, and, so far as those thus placed are concerned, might as well be stricken from the Constitution. The efforts of the courts and their officials to bring the guilty to punishment, praiseworthy as they are, are not to be aided by the sacrifice of those great principles established by years of endeavor and suffering which have resulted in their embodiment in the fundamental law of the land."
6-word summary: exclusionary rule applied to states; privacy
Result: 6:3, favor Mapp
Related Constitutional issue/amendment: 4th amendment (unreasonable search and seizure)
Civil Rights or Civil Liberties: Liberties
Significance/Precedent: The exclusionary rule is applied to the states, therefore strengthening the power of the 4th and 5th amendments and ultimately the right to privacy in the 9th amendment. The exclusionary rule also laid out violating principles taken into account in the good-faith exception.
Quote from majority opinion: "If letters and private documents can thus be seized and held and used in evidence against a citizen accused of an offense, the protection of the Fourth Amendment declaring his right to be secure against such searches and seizures is of no value, and, so far as those thus placed are concerned, might as well be stricken from the Constitution. The efforts of the courts and their officials to bring the guilty to punishment, praiseworthy as they are, are not to be aided by the sacrifice of those great principles established by years of endeavor and suffering which have resulted in their embodiment in the fundamental law of the land."
6-word summary: exclusionary rule applied to states; privacy