Introduction
This submission seeks to analyze the decision in Mapp v. Ohio and bring out the facts of that case, highlighting the similarities and differences in facts between the case and the fact pattern. It will then highlight the rules that the United States Supreme Court developed in deciding Mapp v. Ohio and apply the same to the fact pattern in a bid to arrive at a decision consistent with the legal principle of stare decisis.
In the Mapp’s case, police in Ohio got wind of a bombing suspect and an illegal gambling machine that were in Mapp’s house. When ...