Legal Citation: 40 U.S. 518 (1841)

Appellant
United States

Appellees
Joseph Cinque, et al.

Appellant's Claim
That the slaves aboard the Amistad should be convicted of mutiny.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
Harry D. Gilpin, U.S. Attorney General

Chief Lawyers for Appellees
John Quincy Adams, Roger S. Baldwin

Justices for the Court
Philip P. Barbour, John Catron, John McKinley, John McLean, Joseph Story (writing for the Court), Smith Thompson, Roger Brooke Taney, James M. Wayne

Justices Dissenting
Henry Baldwin

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
January 1841

Decision
The Court would not convict the participants in the Amistad mutiny.

Significance
When the courts refused to convict slaves from the schooner Amistad...