Dollree Mapp was the appellant in the Supreme Court case Mapp v Ohio.
15 Facts About Dollree Mapp
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Dollree Mapp argued that her right to privacy in her home, the Fourth Amendment, was violated by police officers who entered her house with what she thought to be a fake search warrant.
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Dollree Mapp took the warrant and put it in her blouse so the police would not take it.
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Dollree Mapp then appealed to the USSupreme Court "on the basis of freedom of expression" and they accepted her case.
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Dollree Mapp moved to New York after her Supreme Court case.
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In 1971, Dollree Mapp was arrested and sentenced to eight years in prison for the possession of heroin.
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Dollree Mapp was the sole survivor of her immediate relatives after her daughter Barbara died in 2002.
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Dollree Mapp tried to stay active in her late eighties, but died on October 31,2014, in Conyers, Georgia, at the age of 91.
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Dollree Mapp was born on October 30,1923 in Forest, Mississippi.
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Dollree Mapp was one of seven children and the daughter of a cattleman and schoolteacher.
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When Dollree Mapp was 10 years old, she left her family to live in Cleveland with her aunt.
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Five years later, Dollree Mapp was pregnant and gave birth to her daughter Barbara Bivins by Jimmy Bivins, a boxer whom she soon married.
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Dollree Mapp had been in New York since her marriage to Bivins, but decided to move back to Cleveland with her daughter after the break up with Moore.
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Dollree Mapp stayed close to the boxing world, and that is how she came into contact with her neighbor Don King, whose home had allegedly been bombed by the man the police were searching for the night they came to Mapp's house.
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Dollree Mapp kept working for inmates through her employment at a non-profit, which gave aid to inmates and gave her a platform to speak about her court experience.