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The Supreme Court unanimously decided that since there was no warrant, the search was illegal. Therefore, the papers found should have been excluded because of the Fourth Amendment.

Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that the exclusionary rule, which prevents a prosecutor from using evidence that was obtained by violating the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, applies to states as well as the federal government.

(April 25, 1906, July 24, 1997) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1956 to 1990.

Joseph Story (September 18, 1779, September 10, 1845) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1812 to 1845.

Thomas Stanley Matthews (July 21, 1824, March 22, 1889), known as Stanley Matthews in adulthood, was an American attorney, soldier, judge and senator from Ohio who became an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from May 1881 to his death in 1889.

Bushrod Washington (June 5, 1762, November 26, 1829) was an American attorney and politician from the Washington family who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1798 to 1829.

Abraham Fortas (June 19, 1910, April 5, 1982) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1969.

Arthur Joseph Goldberg (August 8, 1908, January 19, 1990) was an American politician and jurist who served as the 9th U.S. secretary of labor, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the 6th United States ambassador to the United Nations.

(November 3, 1845, May 19, 1921) was an American politician and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1894 to 1910 and as the ninth Chief Justice of the United States from 1910 until his death in 1921, for a total of 27 years on the bench.

William Rufus Day (April 17, 1849, July 9, 1923) was an American diplomat and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1903 to 1922.

Thomas Campbell Clark (September 23, 1899, June 13, 1977) was an American lawyer who served as the 59th United States attorney general from 1945 to 1949 and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1949 to 1967.

He was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, the second governor of New Jersey, and a Founding Father of the United States.

David Davis (March 9, 1815, June 26, 1886) was an American politician and jurist who was a U.S. senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.

James Clark McReynolds (February 3, 1862, August 24, 1946) was an American lawyer and judge from Tennessee who served as United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Sherman "Shay" Minton (October 20, 1890, April 9, 1965) was an American politician and jurist who served as a U.S. senator from Indiana and later became an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; he was a member of the Democratic Party.

During a four-decade career in public office, Woodbury served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a United States senator, the ninth governor of New Hampshire, and cabinet member in the Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren administrations.

He was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1863 to 1897, and prior to that, he was the fifth Chief Justice of California.

Owen Josephus Roberts (May 2, 1875, May 17, 1955) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1930 to 1945.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis (November 4, 1809, September 15, 1874) was an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1851 to 1857.

William Cushing (March 1, 1732, September 13, 1810) was an American lawyer who was one of the original five associate justices of the United States Supreme Court; confirmed by the United States Senate on September 26, 1789, he served until his death.

He then served in the cabinet of President Theodore Roosevelt as Secretary of the Navy and Attorney General before Roosevelt appointed him to the United States Supreme Court in 1906.

James Iredell (October 5, 1751, October 20, 1799) was one of the first justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Willis Van Devanter (April 17, 1859, February 8, 1941) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1911 to 1937.

Henry Billings Brown (March 2, 1836, September 4, 1913) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1891 to 1906.

John McKinley (May 1, 1780, July 19, 1852) was a United States Senator from the state of Alabama and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Robert Cooper Grier (March 5, 1794, September 25, 1870) was an American judge who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1846 to 1870.

Joseph Philo Bradley (March 14, 1813, January 22, 1892) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1870 to 1892.

Henry Baldwin (January 14, 1780, April 21, 1844) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from January 6, 1830, to April 21, 1844.

He was appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1872.

Henry Brockholst Livingston (November 25, 1757, March 18, 1823) was an American Revolutionary War officer, a justice of the New York Court of Appeals and eventually an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

John Catron (January 7, 1786, May 30, 1865) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1837 to 1865, during the Taney Court.

James Wilson (September 14, 1742, August 21, 1798) was a Scottish American Founding Father, legal scholar, jurist, and statesman who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1789 to 1798.

Edward Terry Sanford (July 23, 1865, March 8, 1930) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1923 until his death in 1930.

(December 27, 1771, August 4, 1834) was an American attorney, state legislator, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1804 until his death in 1834.

Duvall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1835, during the Marshall Court.

John Hessin Clarke (September 18, 1857, March 22, 1945) was an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1922.

William Burnham Woods (August 3, 1824, May 14, 1887) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

He was the first Republican appointed as a justice to the United States Supreme Court.

Joseph Rucker Lamar (October 14, 1857, January 2, 1916) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court appointed by President William Howard Taft.

Robert Trimble (November 17, 1776, August 25, 1828) was a lawyer and jurist who served as Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, as United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States fro

(September 19, 1907, August 25, 1998) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987.

Horace Harmon Lurton (February 26, 1844, July 12, 1914) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and previously was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Sixth Circuit.

He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

David Josiah Brewer (June 20, 1837, March 28, 1910) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1890 to 1910.

James Moore Wayne (1790, July 5, 1867) was an American attorney, judge and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1835 to 1867.

Pierce Butler (March 17, 1866, November 16, 1939) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1923 until his death in 1939.

(July 20, 1894, September 10, 1949) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1943 to 1949.

Peter Vivian Daniel (April 24, 1784, May 31, 1860) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Howell Edmunds Jackson (April 8, 1832, August 8, 1895) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1893 until his death in 1895.

(January 26, 1832, August 2, 1924) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1892 to 1903.

Alfred Moore (May 21, 1755, October 15, 1810) was an American judge, lawyer, planter and military officer who became an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Secretary of the Interior under President Grover Cleveland, and was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

William Strong (May 6, 1808, August 19, 1895) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1870 to 1880, writing majority opinions in landmark cases like Strauder v.

Samuel Chase (April 17, 1741, June 19, 1811) was a Founding Father of the United States, signer of the Continental Association and United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

He was a Democrat who was named to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1940 after a political career that included serving as United States Attorney General, 35th governor of Michigan, and Mayor of Detroit.

Postmaster General, and as a justice of the Ohio and United States Supreme Courts.

Appointed by Franklin Pierce to the United States Supreme Court in 1853, he resigned at the beginning of the American Civil War, traveled south and became an official of the Confederate States of America.

In 1957, he won confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States, thus becoming the first individual to serve as a judge on a federal district court, a federal court of appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

Horace Gray (March 24, 1828, September 15, 1902) was an American jurist who served on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and then on the United States Supreme Court, where he frequently interpreted the Constitution in ways that increased the powers of Congress.

Philip Pendleton Barbour (May 25, 1783, February 25, 1841) was the tenth speaker of the United States House of Representatives and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

jurist, and politician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1941 until his death in 1954. He had previously served a

States from 1836 until his death in 1864. Prior to joining the U.S. Supreme Court, Taney served as the U.S. attorney general and U.S. secretary

of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the executive branch, most prominently as the

Rutledge as one of the inaugural associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Rutledge left the Supreme Court in 1791 to b

was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the U

jurist and politician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1922 to 1938. A member of the Republican Party, he also

from 1895 to 1899. He later served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1912 to 1922.

lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1938 to 1957. He also served as U.S. Solicitor General f

lawyer and physician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1862 until his death in 1890 and who authored landmark o

lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1896 to 1909, and is the most recent Democratic nominee

from Virginia and was appointed an Associate Justice on the first U.S. Supreme Court by George Washington. A Virginia lawyer since 1757, Blair rep