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What famous case was about illegally obtained evidence being inadmissible in court?
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There were two famous US Supreme Court cases on this topic, although most people only remember the more recent one, Mapp v. Ohio, (1961). In Mapp, the Warren Court applied the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule developed in Weeks v. US, (1914), to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause. The Exclusionary Rule prevents illegally obtained evidence from being used to convict a defendant.
Weeks v. US, 232 US 383 (1914) was the case that established the "exclusionary rule," preventing evidence gathered through illegal or unreasonable search and seizure of a suspect from being used to prosecute the suspect in court. This Fourth Amendment Search and Seizure protection originally applied only to federal cases because the Supreme Court hadn't incorporated much of the Bill of Rights to the States in 1914.
In Wolf v. Colorado, 338 US 25 (1949), the Supreme Court decided the exclusionary rule didn't apply to the states, but the Warren Court reversed this stance in Mapp v. Ohio,367 US 643 (1961), holding "All evidence obtained by searches and seizures in violation of the Federal Constitution is inadmissible in a criminal trial in a state court."
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