Word: mapp
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...14th Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed-19 years later. In 1955, Traynor held that California police could not use illegally obtained evidence in court, a rule that paved the way for the Supreme Court's later extension of that standard to all the states in Mapp v. Ohio (1961). Rulings by Traynor entitled both sides to examine one another's evidence before a criminal trial. Traynor's court also obliged state and local police to warn a suspect that he has a right to silence and counsel. In 1966, the Supreme Court followed suit in Miranda...