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Police enter Dollree Mapp's home. She was arrested for obscene materials siezed at her house.
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Mapp was tried and convicted and was sentenced to 1-7 years in a womens penitentiary.
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Mapp v. Ohio case enters the supreme court for ruling.
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The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision overturned Mapp's conviction, on the grounds that evidence seized without a search warrant cannot be used in state criminal prosecutions under the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the 14th Amendment, which extends that protection to state jurisdictions.
