Obituary: Dollree MAPP

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William Yardley, Obituary: Dollree Mapp Is Dead,Defied Search in Landmark Case; A 1961 Supreme Court's limitation that extended limits on police power and evidence. New York Times, Dec 10, 2014.
www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/us/do ... k-case-is-dead.html

Note:
(a) Mapp v Ohio, 367 US 643 (1961)
www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1960/1960_236
(b) Its significance, which the obituary fails to point out, is Supreme Court applied United States Constitution to the states for the first time. Until then, it had been thought that the Constitution was a constraint on federal government only. In Mapp, Supreme Court held the Constitution was applicable to the state, thanks to two clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment (adopted in 1868): "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."