CRIMINAL LAW
1215: England – The signing of the Magna Carta
1670: England – Habeas Corpus Act passed
1699: England – the Act of 1699 made almost all but petty theft capital offenses
1752: England – Executed criminals would, by law, be used for medical dissection
1789: U.S. Constitution adopted
1808: Napoleon’s Criminal Code abolished the inquisitional system and torture. It helped start public trials
1843: M’Naghten Case – England
1866: Fourteenth Amendment added to the U.S. Constitution
1868: England – public executions were prohibited
1874: England – law passed that required the reportage of births and deaths
1910: Gambling was prohibited in Nevada
------ Congress passed the Mann Act
1914: Congress passed strict immigration laws
1922: Congress passed an import – export law restricting the import of opium
1924: Congress banned the manufacture of heroin
1927: England – The indicting grand jury was abolished
1931: Gambling was legalized in Nevada
1934: Congress passed the National Firearms Act
1936: Brown v. Mississippi
1937: Congress passed the Marihuana Tax Act
1948: England- The Criminal Justice Act of 1948 was passed. Flogging was forbidden except for prison mutiny and gross violence to prison officers
1960: Mapp v. Ohio
1966: Sheppard v. Maxwell
------ Congress passed the Freedom of Information Act
------ Miranda v. Arizona
1970: Congress passed the Organized Crime Control Act
1971: Congress passed the Fair Credit Reporting Act
1972: Furman v. Georgia
1973: Congress passed the Crime Control Act to amend the 1968 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
1974: Congress passed the Privacy Act
1976: 35 states began revamping their criminal codes to reinstate the death penalty under new U.S. Supreme Court guidelines
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