American Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights Timeline. Portuguese negotiate the first slave trade agreement that also includes gold and ivory. By the end of the 19th Century, because of the slave trade, five times as many Africans (over 11 million) would arrive in the Americas than Europeans.
Consequently, on June 27, 1963, Ernesto Miranda was convicted and sentenced to two concurrent terms of 20-30 years imprisonment. But Alvin Moore's arguments about the confession had touched off a legal firestorm. Miranda's conviction was appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. On June 13, 1966, Chief Justice Earl Warren, speaking for a 5-4 majority, for the first time established unequivocal guidelines about what is and what is not permissible in the interrogation room:
Brooklyn judge sets El Chapo trial for April 2018. A Brooklyn federal judge set an April 2018 trial date for Mexican drug lord Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman. Federal prosecutors told Judge Brian Cogan on Friday that they need up to three months to pin the boatload of charges on Guzman, which would put him away for life. Cogan called the April 16 date somewhat aspirational for the bigtime case.