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Boyd v. United States
In a unanimous decision, the Court ruled that a physical invasion of the home is not necessary for an act to violate the search and seizure clause of the Fourth Amendment. This shows how the officers raiding Mapp's house was in the wrong. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/116/616/ -
Weeks v. United
Supreme Court unanimously rules that the police seizure of Weeks’s belongings violated his constitutional rights and that the government further violated the Fourth Amendment when it refused to return his possessions. https://www.annenbergclassroom.org/resource/our-constitution/third-and-fourth-amendments-timeline/ -
Wolf v. Colorado
The Wolf v. Colorado case established a precedent for the exclusionary rule at the state level, which was later extended in the Mapp v. Ohio case. This meant that evidence obtained unlawfully could not be used against the defendant in both federal and state criminal trials. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/338us25 -
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mapp v ohio (MAIN CASE)
The defendant Mapp. was in her home when the police broke in, looking for a suspect. Then the police conducted an illegal search after failing to provide a valid search warrant. Then during the course of the illegal search the police found obscene materials. The 14th amendment was used because the illegally seized evidence could not be used in a state criminal trial. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/367/643/
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aguilar v texas
Aguilar v. Texas established what was formerly known as the Aguilar-Spinelli test, which allowed search warrants to be granted on the basis of hearsay only if they meet certain requirements.
This relates to Mapp v. Ohio because it shows how the police can get a warrant if they get a search warrant. https://ballotpedia.org/Aguilar_v._Texas#:~:text=Impact,federalism&text=articles%20about%20federalism-,Aguilar%20v.,if%20they%20meet%20certain%20requirements. -
Griswold v. Connecticut
rules that the Constitution gives individuals a “zone of privacy.” In reaching this decision, the Court lists various constitutional provisions, including the Third, Fourth, and Ninth Amendments, as evidence that the framers intended such a right of privacy to exist, even though the Constitution does not contain a specific reference to that right.
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Linkletter v. Walker
Victor Linkletter was convicted in state court on evidence illegally obtained by police prior to the Supreme Court decision concerning the Fourth Amendment in Mapp v. Ohio. Mapp applied the exclusionary rule to state criminal proceedings, denying the use of illegally obtained evidence at trial. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/381/618/ -
Katz v. United States
Supreme Court rules that a criminal defendant’s Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure was violated when, without a warrant, police wiretapped a public phone booth used by the defendant.
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Terry v. Ohio
the U.S. Supreme Court recognizes an exception to the general rule, allowing that the police may “pat down” the outside of a suspect’s clothing and search the immediate area for weapons when they have a “reasonable suspicion” of illegal activity.
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Engblom v. Carey
The guards had been evicted from their employee residences on the prison grounds while they were on strike, and the state prison had given their houses as temporary quarters to the National Guardsmen called in to keep the peace during the strike. https://www.annenbergclassroom.org/resource/our-constitution/third-and-fourth-amendments-timeline/ -
California v. Ciraolo
Acting on a tip and without a warrant, a police officer flew a plane over the backyard of a suspected marijuana dealer and observed and photographed marijuana plants growing in the yard. Attaching his pictures of the yard as evidence, he obtained a warrant for the search of the home.
https://www.annenbergclassroom.org/resource/our-constitution/third-and-fourth-amendments-timeline/