SALE bY
ORLEAnS SHERIFF
JUDICIAL
ADvERTISEMEnT
THAT PORTIOn
OF GROUnD
bEARInG MUnICIPAL
nO.
2451
DREUX
vEnUE, CITY OF nEW
RLEAnS, In THE
ASE
EnTITLED:
AnK OF AMERICA,
.A. vS LEnDELL
ESTER
HARRISOn
/K/A LEnDELL L.
ARRISOn
A/K/A
EnDELL HARRISOn
Civil District Court for
he Parish of Orleans
o. 2014-10589
by virtue of a WRIT
OF SEIZURE AnD SALE
to me directed by the
Honorable The Civil
District
Court
of
Orleans, in the above
entitled cause, I will
proceed to sell by pub-
lic auction, on the
ground floor of the Civil
District Court building,
421 Loyola Avenue, in
the First District of the
City on May 21, 2015,
at 12:00 o’clock noon,
the following described
property to wit:
LOTS 7 AND 8, SQUARE
84.
THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS-
TRICT,
GENTILLY GARDENS,
MUNICIPAL NO. 2451
DREUX AVENUE
ACQUIRED MIN 947436
WRIT
AMOUnT:
$85,217.29
Seized in the above
suit, TERMS CASH. The
purchaser at the moment
of adjudication to make a
deposit of ten percent of
the purchase price, and
the balance within thirty
days thereafter. (NOTE:
The payment must be
Cash, Cashier’s Check,
Certified Check or Money
Order. No personal
checks.)
MARLIn n. GUSMAn
Sheriff
Parish of Orleans
ATTY: PATRICIA BLANkENBAkER
(225) 756-0373
LM 58
LA. WEEkLY 4/20/2015, 5/18/2015
_____________________________
SALE bY
ORLEAnS SHERIFF
JUDICIAL
ADvERTISEMEnT
THAT PORTIOn
OF GROUnD
bEARInG MUnICIPAL
nO.
1635
n.
ROCHEbLAvE STREET
AnD 2418 OnZAGA
STREET, CITY OF nEW
ORLEAnS, In CASE
EnTITLED: CITY OF
nEW ORLEAnS vS MT.
CALvARY CHURCH OF
GOD In CHRIST
Civil District Court for
the Parish of Orleans
no. 2015-2129
by virtue of a WRIT
OF FIERI FACIAS to me
directed
by
the
Honorable The Civil
District
Court
of
Orleans, in the above
entitled cause, I will
proceed to sell by pub-
lic auction, on the
ground floor of the Civil
District Court building,
421 Loyola Avenue, in
the First District of the
City on May 21, 2015,
at 12:00 o’clock noon,
the following described
property to wit:
LOTS D & E, SQUARE
1342,
THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS-
TRICT,
MUNICIPAL NO. 1635 N.
ROCHEBLAVE STREET
AND 2418 ONZAGA
STREET
AQUIRED MIN 1158290
WRIT
AMOUnT:
$3,575.00
Seized in the above
suit, TERMS CASH. The
purchaser at the moment
of adjudication to make a
deposit of ten percent of
the purchase price, and
the balance within thirty
days thereafter. (NOTE:
The payment must be
Cash, Cashier’s Check,
Certified Check or Money
Order. No personal
checks.)
MARLIn n. GUSMAn
Sheriff
Parish of Orleans
ATTY: JOHN HAGAN
(504) 658-4346
LM 25
LA. WEEkLY 4/20/2015, 5/18/2015
_____________________________
SALE bY
ORLEAnS SHERIFF
JUDICIAL
ADvERTISEMEnT
THAT CERTAIn
COnDOMInIUM
UnIT 501 OF THE
1205 ST. CHARLES
COnDOMInIUMS
bEARInG MUnICIPAL
nO. 1205 ST. CHARLES
AvEnUE, UnIT 501,
CITY
OF
nEW
ORLEAnS, In THE
CASE EnTITLED: U.S.
bAnK,
n.A.,
AS
TRUSTEE, FOR J.P.
MORGAn MORTGAGE
ACQUISITIOn TRUST
2006-CH2
ASSET
bACKED
PASS-
THROUGH
CERTIFI-
CATES, SERIES 2006-
CH2 vS SHAnE A.
SOnGY,
KELLY
RObERTS
SOnGY,
AnD
SHAWn
D.
bREAUD
Civil District Court for
the Parish of Orleans
no. 2015-369
by virtue of a WRIT
OF SEIZURE AnD SALE
to me directed by the
Honorable The Civil
District
Court
of
Orleans, in the above
entitled cause, I will
proceed to sell by pub-
lic auction, on the
ground floor of the Civil
District Court building,
421 Loyola Avenue, in
the First District of the
City on May 21, 2015,
at 12:00 o’clock noon,
the following described
property to wit:
LOTS" X", "B", "C", "3-A",
"4-A" & "X", SQUARE
213,
FIRST MUNICIPAL DIS-
TRICT,
MUNICIPAL NO. 1205
ST. CHARLES AVENUE,
UNIT 501
ACQUIRED MIN 848988
WRIT
AMOUnT:
$172,086.00
Seized in the above
suit, TERMS CASH. The
purchaser at the moment
of adjudication to make a
deposit of ten percent of
the purchase price, and
the balance within thirty
days thereafter. (NOTE:
The payment must be
Cash, Cashier’s Check,
Certified Check or Money
Order. No personal
checks.)
MARLIn n. GUSMAn
Sheriff
Parish of Orleans
ATTY: RADER JACkSON
(504) 581-9444
LM 4
LA. WEEkLY 4/20/2015, 5/18/2015
_____________________________
SALE bY
ORLEAnS SHERIFF
JUDICIAL
ADvERTISEMEnT
THAT PORTIOn
OF GROUnD
bEARInG MUnICIPAL
nO.
2717
COMET
STREET, THIS CITY, In
THE MATTER EnTI-
TLED: U.S. bAnK
nATIOnAL ASSOCIA-
TIOn, AS TRUSTEE,
SUCCESSOR In InTER-
EST TO bAnK OF
AMERICA, nATIOnAL
ASSOCIATIOn
AS
TRUSTEE AS SUCCES-
SOR bY MERGER TO
LASALLE
bAnK
nATIOnAL ASSOCIA-
TIOn, AS TRUSTEE
FOR
CERTIFICATE-
HOLDERS OF bEAR
STEARnS
ASSET
bACKED SECURITIES I
LLC ASSET-bACKED
C E R T I F I C A T E S ,
SERIES 2005-HE4 vER-
SUS IRA HAYS, JR.
AnD nATASHA b.
HAYS
Civil District Court for
the Parish of Orleans
no. 2013-5634
by virtue of a WRIT
OF SEIZURE AnD SALE
to me directed by the
Honorable The Civil
District
Court
of
Orleans, in the above
entitled cause, I will
proceed to sell by pub-
lic auction, on the
ground floor of the Civil
District Court building,
421 Loyola Avenue, in
the First District of the
City on May 21, 2015,
at 12:00 o’clock noon,
the following described
property to wit:
LOT 55-B, SQUARE
NO. 21
FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS-
TRICT
PLANTATION ESTATES
SUBDIVISION
MUNICIPAL NO. 2717
COMET STREET
ACQ. MIN 800213
WRIT
AMOUnT:
$122,080.39
Seized in the above
suit, TERMS CASH. The
purchaser at the moment
of adjudication to make a
deposit of ten percent of
the purchase price, and
the balance within thirty
days thereafter. (NOTE:
The payment must be
Cash, Cashier’s Check,
Certified Check or Money
Order. No personal
checks.)
MARLIn n. GUSMAn
Sheriff
Parish of Orleans
ATTY: ANNE RAYMOND
(504) 581-9444
NNB 22
LA. WEEkLY 4/20/2015, 5/18/2015
_____________________________
SALE bY
ORLEAnS SHERIFF
JUDICIAL
ADvERTISEMEnT
THAT PORTIOn
OF GROUnD
bEARInG MUnICIPAL
nO. 2614 AnD 2616
REPUbLIC
STREET,
THIS CITY, In THE MAT-
TER EnTITLED: GEn-
ERATIOn MORTGAGE
COMPAnY
vERSUS
THE OPEnED SUCCES-
SIOn
OF
OLIvE
PORTER (A/K/A OLIvE
M. PORTER)
Civil District Court for
the Parish of Orleans
no. 2015-1633
by virtue of a WRIT
OF SEIZURE AnD SALE
to me directed by the
Honorable The Civil
District
Court
of
Orleans, in the above
entitled cause, I will
proceed to sell by pub-
lic auction, on the
ground floor of the Civil
District Court building,
421 Loyola Avenue, in
the First District of the
City on May 21, 2015,
at 12:00 o’clock noon,
the following described
property to wit:
LOT 17, SQUARE1508
THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS-
TRICT
MUNICIPAL NO. 2614
AND 2616 REPUBLIC
STREET
ACQ. MIN 992075
WRIT
AMOUnT:
$160,491.31
Seized in the above
suit, TERMS CASH. The
purchaser at the moment
of adjudication to make a
deposit of ten percent of
the purchase price, and
the balance within thirty
days thereafter. (NOTE:
The payment must be
Cash, Cashier’s Check,
Certified Check or Money
Order. No personal
checks.)
MARLIn n. GUSMAn
Sheriff
Parish of Orleans
ATTY: PENNY DAIGREPONT
(504) 831-7726
NNB 31
LA. WEEkLY 4/20/2015, 5/18/2015
_____________________________
SALE bY
ORLEAnS SHERIFF
JUDICIAL
ADvERTISEMEnT
THAT PORTIOn
OF GROUnD
bEARInG MUnICIPAL
nO. 2701-03 MAGnO-
LIA STREET, THIS CITY,
In THE MATTER EnTI-
TLED: JbS InvEST-
MEnTS, LLC vERSUS
MICHAEL WILLIE HUT-
TOn
Civil District Court for
the Parish of Orleans
no. 2015-2040
by virtue of a WRIT
OF SEIZURE AnD SALE
to me directed by the
Honorable The Civil
District
Court
of
Orleans, in the above
entitled cause, I will
proceed to sell by pub-
lic auction, on the
ground floor of the Civil
District Court building,
421 Loyola Avenue, in
the First District of the
City on May 21, 2015,
at 12:00 o’clock noon,
the following described
property to wit:
LOT A, SQUARE 382
FOURTH MUNICIPAL
DISTRICT
MUNICIPAL NO. 2701-
03 MAGNOLIA STREET
ACQ. MIN 620171
WRIT
AMOUnT:
$65,995.26
Seized in the above
suit, TERMS CASH. The
purchaser at the moment
of adjudication to make a
deposit of ten percent of
the purchase price, and
the balance within thirty
days thereafter. (NOTE:
The payment must be
Cash, Cashier’s Check,
Certified Check or Money
Order. No personal
checks.)
MARLIn n. GUSMAn
Sheriff
Parish of Orleans
ATTY: DARRYL FONTANA
(504) 581-9545
NNB 1
LA. WEEkLY 4/20/2015, 5/18/2015
_____________________________
SALE bY
ORLEAnS SHERIFF
JUDICIAL
ADvERTISEMEnT
THAT PORTIOn
OF GROUnD
bEARInG MUnICIPA
nO. 2424 bEnTO
STREET, CITY OF nE
ORLEAnS, In TH
CASE
EnTITLED
DEUTSCHE
bAn
nATIOnAL
TRUS
COMPAnY,
A
TRUSTEE
FO
AMERIQUEST MORT
GAGE
SECURITIE
InC., ASSET-bACKE
PASS-THROUGH CER
TIFICATES,
SERIE
2004-R5 vS THE SUC
CESSIOn OF PERR
JOSEPH GREEnWOO
A/K/A
PERRY
J
GREEnWOOD A/K/
PERRY GREEnWOOD
KEYOKA
MOnIQU
WILLIAMS
A/K/
KEYOKA M. WILLIAM
A/K/A
KEYOK
WILLIAMS, PERInIK
GREEnWOOD
An
PERIOnnE
GREEn
WOOD
Civil District Court fo
the Parish of Orlean
no. 2014-6260
by virtue of a WRI
OF SEIZURE AnD SAL
to me directed by th
Honorable The Civi
District
Court
o
Orleans, in the abov
entitled cause, I wil
proceed to sell by pub
lic auction, on th
ground floor of the Civi
District Court building
421 Loyola Avenue, i
the First District of th
City on May 21, 2015
at 12:00 o’clock noon
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Marilyn Mosby is the latest example of why Black lawyers matter
By Yolanda Young
Contributing Writer
Editor’s Note: This article is
sponsored by The Cochran Firm,
lawyers for the parents of John
Crawford III, who was shot and
killed by police near Dayton, Ohio,
in September.)
(Special to the NNPA from
Lawyers of Color)
— In response
to last year’s killing of Michael
Brown, La June Montgomery
Tabron, who heads one of the
nation’s largest philanthropies,
W.K. Kellogg Foundation, issued a
statement in which she astutely
noted that deaths like Brown’s
“demonstrate that the law-enforce-
ment and justice systems in our
nation are broken.”
An often-cited criticism: The
police force is too white. Well, the
legal profession is even whiter and
the job much more subjective.
Consider the role prosecutorial dis-
cretion plays in the administration
of criminal justice. Insufficient
resources and an overflowing
criminal docket require prosecu-
tors act in a role the public views
as judge and jury. Without objec-
tive criteria, prosecutors decide
whom to charge and what those
charges will be. They alone decide
whether to offer a plea bargain or
proceed to trial. They are usually
allowed to exercise this power
with impunity and outside of pub-
lic view, but in the last year, the
curtain has been pulled back.
In a rash of high profile police
killings of unarmed Black males
— John Crawford III, Michael
Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice,
and Walter Scott — white prosecu-
tors appeared reluctant to vigor-
ously pursue indictments, even
when facts were highly disputed.
Reports by
Talking Points Memo,
The Wall Street Journal
and
The
Washington Post
conclude that
almost none of the police officers
who kill roughly 1,000 people each
year is ever charged.
By contrast, Marilyn Mosby
joins a strong block of Black pros-
ecutors, including U.S. Attorney
General Loretta Lynch and her
predecessor Eric Holder, who are
able to respect and support law
enforcement without ignoring the
complexities of police power.
Mosby is Baltimore City state’s
attorney. As Brooklyn’s district
attorney, Kenneth Thompson, put
it in addressing an indictment
against a police officer who shot an
unarmed man in a stairwell: “Acts
of police brutality are not only
crimes against the individual vic-
tim but also are attacks on the com-
munities
in
which
they
occur…The people of Brooklyn
have voted for their District
Attorney to keep them safe from
all crimes, including those of
police brutality.” Thompson is
African American.
White prosecutorial restraint
does not extend to Black defen-
dants
Notably the prosecutorial
restraint white prosecutors have
recently displayed toward police
doesn’t extend to Black defen-
dants. A 2011 study of the New
York County District Attorney’s
Office (DANY) by Vera Institute
of Justice found Black defendants
19 percent more likely than whites
to be offered plea deals that includ-
ed jail or prison time. Blacks
charged with misdemeanor person
offenses or drug offenses were
more likely than whites to be held
in jail or prison at their arraign-
ment and to be offered plea deals
that included jail time. Such biases
are largely responsible for the cur-
rent makeup of the prison popula-
tion. In 2012, African Americans
and Hispanics accounted for 58
percent of those in prison for drug
offenses.
While unconscious-bias training
and stricter rules might improve
the situation, the best way to stem
discrimination is to have more
Black faces in the room. This was
the sentiment shared by Black
prosecutors in a 2010 district attor-
ney roundtable discussion. As for-
mer National Black Prosecutors
Association president Bruce
Brown put it, “When you have
African Americans in the room
making decisions, challenging
decisions, folks are forced to look
at the motives behind what they’re
doing, and it’s not until all those
motives are questioned that we
make sure that our system is work-
ing, not only effectively, but also
efficiently and fairly for everyone
involved.”
There are no Black attorneys in
Ferguson
How we get those Black attor-
neys in the room is a difficult
question that demands an answer.
Just ask the residents of Ferguson,
Mo. The public was shocked to
learn that despite its Black majori-
ty, only six percent of the police
force is Black. At the time of
Brown’s killing, the number of
Black attorneys in Ferguson was
zero, according to the Missouri
bar, which listed only four white
attorneys for the city’s 14,000
Black residents, who were issued
92 percent of the city’s warrants
and received 95 percent of two-
day or more jail sentences.
The Justice Department’s
lengthy March report on Ferguson
linked a lack of legal representa-
tion with police misconduct. In
blistering detail, the report demon-
strated how the police and courts,
whose employees have a proclivity
for racist jokes and discriminatory
behavior, employ tactics that
include harassment involving traf-
fic stops, court appearances, high
fines, and the threat of jail to extort
money from Black residents. By
disproportionately targeting Afri-
can Americans and routinely vio-
lating their constitutional rights,
Ferguson created the predatory
environment in which a jaywalk-
ing stop by police officer Darren
Wilson could escalate to the homi-
cide of Michael Brown.
Ferguson residents are subjected
to a modern-day debtors’ prison,
according to a recent lawsuit filed
by ArchCity Defenders, which
found that Ferguson’s poor resi-
dents provide the second-largest
source of revenue for the city,
$2,635,400 in 2013 as Ferguson
Municipal Court disposed of
24,532 warrants and 12,018 cases,
“or about three warrants and 1.5
cases per household.”
But why do we need Black
lawyers?
According to the American Bar
Association, 88 percent of all
lawyers are white and only 4.8 per-
cent are Black, so for each of the
60,864 Black lawyers there are 686
Black citizens needing assistance
compared with only 282 white cit-
izens for each of the 1,117,118
white lawyers.
In actuality, the disparity is of
course much greater because
African Americans are dispropor-
tionately entangled in the criminal
justice system — one in 15 Black
men is incarcerated compared to
one in 106 white men.
While there are white lawyers,
like the founders of ArchCity
Defenders, who are committed to
social justice reform and are consci-
entious, they comprise a very small
fraction of practicing attorneys.
Moreover, racial bias is a problem
too great to be addressed by even the
most ardent groups of well-meaning
equal justice advocates.
Criminal cases aren’t the only
ones in which Black people are
disadvantaged. Several studies
reveal that African Americans suf-
fer worse legal outcomes than their
white counterparts in civil cases,
even when controlling for income
and educational levels. While the
researchers have no way of know-
ing whether the disparate treatment
is intentional, the proof of white
attorney bias exists across many
legal practice areas.
A study funded by the Ameri-
can Bar Foundation examined
employment discrimination cases
and tried to determine why
African Americans are 2.5 times
more likely than white plaintiffs
to file employment discrimina-
tion claims pro se, in which
plaintiffs represent themselves
and typically have significantly
worse litigation outcomes than
those with representation.
In the study, “Race, Attorney
Influence, and Bankruptcy Chapter
Choice,” researchers found that
even after controlling for financial,
demographic, and other factors,
lawyers, in part because of biases,
were disproportionately steering
blacks into Chapter 13 (the more
onerous and costly form of con-
sumer bankruptcy). Attorneys rec-
ommend Chapter 13 to Black
clients twice as often as they do
white clients, even when client
prefer the less onerous Chapter 7.
…And black judges
Even the bench does not appea
exempt from such biases. In “Myth
of the Color-Blind Judge,” Pat K.
Chew, a professor at the University
of Pittsburgh School of Law, an
Robert E. Kelley, a professor a
Carnegie Mellon Universit
Tepper School of Business, per
formed an empirical study of fed
eral government harassment case
spanning 20 years and concluded
“Our work initially confirms cer
tain characteristics of racial harass
ment cases: the vast majority of th
judges are white; the vast majority
of the plaintiff-employees ar
African-American; the vast major
ity of accused harassers are white
and that, when studying case out
comes, plaintiff- employees have
very poor win rate in general
succeeding in only 22 percent o
cases overall.
According to the American Ba
Association, in state trial courts
where the vast majority of case
are handled, only seven percent o
judges are Black.
Judicial homogeneity naturall
leads to a lack of diversity amon
law clerks, who can have enormou
influence with their judges. I
1998,
USA Today
caused an uproa
among social justice advocates an
members of the Congressiona
Black Caucus when its investiga
tion revealed that of the 394 la
clerks hired by the nine sittin
Supreme Court Justices, only seve
had been African American. The
sitting justices William Rehnquist
Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia
and David Souter had never hired
Black clerk.◊
