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Jul 25, 2018 · On July 25, 2018, Mende Roger filed a Breach of Contract - (Commercial) case against Balter Joni et al. respresented by Eyrich John Frederick in the jurisdiction of Los Angeles County, CA. This case was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Courts, with Brenda M. Penny presiding.
Jan 8, 2019 · Case Summary. On 01/08/2019 Joni Balter filed a Property - Other Eviction lawsuit against Roger Mende. This case was filed in U.S. District Courts, California Central District. The Judges overseeing this case are John F. Walter and Patrick J. Walsh. The case status is Disposed - Other Disposed.
On 07/25/2018 ROGER MENDE filed a Property - Other Property Fraud court case against JONI BALTER in Los Angeles County Superior Courts. Court records for this case are available from Stanley Mosk Courthouse.
Jul 16, 2021 · In his misrepresentation, fraud, and conspiracy causes of action, Mende alleges Balter misrepresented to Mende her special administrator status, duties, and authority, and falsely told Mende she had unsuccessfully searched Margie's condominium for the alleged October 8, 2017 will.
- The Enslavement
- Mutiny on The Amistad
- Criminal Charges Against The Mende
- Who ‘Owned’ The Mende?
- Decision Appealed to U.S. Circuit Court
- The Supreme Court Appeal
- The Return to Africa
- The Legacy of The Amistad Case
In the spring of 1839, traders in Lomboko near the West African coastal town of Sulima sent more than 500 enslaved Africans to then Spanish-ruled Cuba for sale. Most of them had been taken from the West African region of Mende, now a part of Sierra Leone. At a sale of enslaved people in Havana, infamous Cuban plantation owner and trader of enslaved...
Before the Amistad reached its first Cuban destination, a number of the enslaved Mende people escaped from their shackles in the dark of night. Led by an African named Sengbe Pieh – known to the Spanish and Americans as Joseph Cinqué– the freedom seekers killed the Amistad’s captain and cook, overpowered the rest of the crew, and took control of th...
The Mende African men were charged with piracy and murder arising from their armed takeover of the Amistad. In September 1839, a grand jury appointed by the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut considered the charges against the Mende. Serving as the presiding judge in the district court, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Smith Thompson rule...
Besides Lieutenant Gedney, the Spanish plantation owners and traders of enslaved people, Ruiz and Montes petitioned the district court to return the Mende to them as their original property. The Spanish government, of course, wanted its ship back and demanded that the Mende captives be sent to Cuba to be tried in Spanish courts. On January 7, 1840,...
The U.S. Circuit Court in Hartford, Connecticut, convened on April 29, 1840, to hear the multiple appeals to Judge Judson’s district court decision. The Spanish Crown, represented by the U.S. attorney, appealed Judson’s ruling that the Mende Africans were not enslaved people. The Spanish cargo owners appealed the salvage award to the officers of Th...
Responding to pressure from Spain and growing public opinion from the Southern states against the federal courts’ anti-enslavement leanings, the U.S. government appealed the Amistad decision to the Supreme Court. On February 22, 1841, the Supreme Court, with Chief JusticeRoger Taney presiding, heard opening arguments in the Amistad case. Representi...
While it declared them free, the Supreme Court’s decision had not provided the Mende with a way to return to their homes. To help them raise money for the trip, anti-enslavement and church groups scheduled a series of public appearances at which the Mende sang, read Bible passages, and told personal stories of their enslavement and struggle for fre...
The Amistad case and the Mende Africans’ fight for freedom galvanized the growing North American 19th-century Black activist movement and widened the political and societal division between the anti-enslavement North and the South. Many historians consider the Amistad case to be one of the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. A...
- Robert Longley
Jan 8, 2019 · Filing 2 CERTIFICATE of Interested Parties filed by Defendant Roger Mende. (jtil) January 9, 2019: Filing 1 NOTICE OF REMOVAL from Los Angeles Superior Court, filed by Defendant Roger Mende. Case number 18SMUD02388 with copy of complaint.
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United States Attorney William S. Holabird brings charges of piracy and murder against them. Those charges are dismissed in a criminal case because the killings occurred outside of United States territorial waters.
