Mapp v. Ohio · ¶36

Indeed, we are aware of no restraint, similar to that rejected today, conditioning the enforcement of any other basic constitutional right. The right to privacy, no less important than any other right carefully and particularly reserved to the people, would stand in marked contrast to all other rights declared as “basic to a free society.” Wolf v. Colorado, supra, at 27. This Court has not hesitated to enforce as strictly against the States as it does against the Federal Government the rights of free speech and of a free press, the rights to notice and to a fair, public trial, including, as it does, the right not to be convicted by use of a coerced confession, however logically relevant it be, and without regard to its reliability. Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U. S. 534 (1961). And nothing could be more certain than that when a coerced confession is involved, “the relevant rules of evidence”…

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U. S. Reports, volume 367, at 643 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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