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:
I exchanged all my files and a mild Northeast winter for palm trees and heat for a long weekend. Even crime fighters need a break. On the plane, I thought of this post. Not many people are aware of what happened to Ernesto Miranda, the man made famous by the Supreme Court in the case of Miranda v. Arizona. I've discussed Miranda warnings and New York law previously. But, what happened to Ernesto Miranda after the Supreme Court reversed his conviction for rape, kidnapping, and armed robbery? Arizona retried him, without the confession, and a jury again convicted him. He spent eleven years in prison and then was on parole for a few years. He spent those years peddling personally autographed Miranda cards.