d upset the proper balance envisaged by the Constitution between federal and state power. He argued at p. 680 that "problems of criminal law enforcement vary widely from State to State" and the Court "should forbear from fettering the States with an adamant rule which may embarrass them in coping with their own peculiar problems of criminal law enforcement."
Effects of the Mapp decision. Griswold (1975) said the most immediate result of Mapp was "a great torrent of litigation over 7,000 federal cases between 1961 and 1974" (p. 7). Cochran et al. (1996) said that the principal argument advanced by critics of Mapp is that it "would protect only the guilty, whereas constitutional rights are designed to protect the innocent" (p. 159). The ruling has ensured equality of treatment and made irrelevant a plethora of varied state evidentiary rules and prosecutorial practices. Like other
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