Right to Privacy: Mapp v Ohio

Civics 101

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Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

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🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In 1957, three police officers showed up at the home of Dollree Mapp and demanded to be let in. They had no warrant. Ms. Mapp refused. This landmark case about privacy and unlawful search and seizure defines our protections under the 4th Amendment today. This episode features Vince Warren, Executive Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Boston University Law professor Tracey Maclin.

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0:00.0	Civics 101 is supported in part for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
0:07.6	We have a situation here, rising in Caihoga County, Ohio.
0:15.3	And I want to tell you a story about a woman in Ohio.
0:20.1	Woman named Dahlreemab.
0:21.5	She is a woman without any record, but so ever, from a personal point of view.
0:29.2	She lived in a quiet neighborhood in Cleveland, and one day some police officers came to her
0:33.3	house.
0:34.3	And before I tell you what happened next, I just want to say that people out there might
0:39.0	think of Supreme Court cases as these stuffy procedural things.
0:44.7	But at their heart, these cases are stories.
0:50.3	They have a plot, characters, struggles, victory, defeat.
0:58.0	But when it comes to epic sagas, the case we're talking about today, Matt Viohio, pretty
1:04.0	much takes the cake.
1:06.0	Well now you've got me curious.
1:07.6	What has it got?
1:08.8	What's it got?
1:10.4	This case has got it all, Hannah.
1:14.7	It starts with a bomb, numbers run, operators, an unloaded gun, crooked cops, pornography,
1:22.6	a young Don King.
1:24.4	I'm not trying to win a popularity contest.
1:26.4	And at the center of it all, a true hero who stood in her doorway and said, if you don't
1:31.0	have a warrant, you're not coming in.
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