Mapp v. Ohio · ¶56

She lived alone with her fifteen-year-old daughter in the second-floor flat of a duplex in Cleveland. At about 1:30 in the afternoon of May 23, 1957, three policemen arrived at this house. They rang the bell, and the appellant, appearing at her window, asked them what they wanted. According to their later testimony, the policemen had come to the house on information from “a confidential source that there was a person hiding out in the home, who was wanted for questioning in connection with a recent bombing.” To the appellant’s question, however, they replied only that they wanted to question her and would not state the subject about which they wanted to talk.

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