Mapp v. Ohio at Large in the Fifty States

An Account of Mapp v. Ohio That Misses the Larger Exclusionary Rule Story

∗ E.E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law and Alumni Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law. My thanks to Joshua Dressler for inviting me to review this book. 1 Hudson v. Michigan, 126 S. Ct. 2159 (2006). In Hudson, Justice Scalia’s opinion for the Court opined that one should not assume that there is a need to deter police misconduct by excluding unc...

Voting at fifty-fifty and the Contrarian Effect

A sociophysical model for opinion dynamics is shown to embody a series of recent western hung national votes all set at the unexpected and very improbable edge of a fifty-fifty score. It started with the Bush-Gore 2000 American presidential election, followed by the 2002 Stoiber-Schrőder, then the 2005 Schrőder-Merkel German elections, and finally the 2006 Prodi-Berlusconi Italian elections. In...

Chaos at fifty

third world intellectuals in v. s. naipaul’s fiction: the mimic men, a bend in the river, magic seeds

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...

Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health.

Ohio law made it a crime for a physician to perform an abortion on an unmarried, unemancipated, minor woman unless one parent is notified or a court authorizes the abortion on the minor's showing that she is sufficiently mature to make the decision herself; that she has been physically, emotionally, or sexually abused by one parent; or that notice is not in her best interests. The plaintiffs, ...