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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Time is not always kind to the people whose names get attached to landmark legal cases. Ernesto Miranda, the defendant whose 1966 Supreme Court case forced police to ...

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 -- 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. 31 in ...

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 ...

Time is not always kind to the people whose names get attached to landmark legal cases. Ernesto Miranda, the defendant whose 1966 Supreme Court case forced police to ...