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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder, [2] until released following a petition of habeas corpus after almost 20 years in prison.
The following year Carter and Artis were found guilty of the murders, which were widely reported as racially motivated. In the years that followed, a substantial amount of controversy emerged over the case, ranging from allegations of faulty evidence and questionable eyewitness testimony to an unfair trial.
Carter was a professional boxer who was twice convicted of the murders of James Oliver, Fred Nauyoks, and Hazel Tanis, along with his friend and fellow defendant John Artis. Carter's second conviction was overturned in 1985. Carter inspired the 1975 Bob Dylan song "Hurricane", and the film The Hurricane (1999) was based on his case. Oct 25, 1967
Theodora Carter, the daughter of Ruben Hurricane Carter, the boxer who was wrongfully convicted of murder, attends the street naming ceremony for her father in front of the Passaic County ...
PATERSON — Rubin “Hurricane” Carter — the boxer who spent 19 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of a triple murder in Paterson — became a national icon for people who see ...
John Artis, who was wrongly convicted with boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in a triple murder case made famous in a The post John Artis, co-defendant of ‘Hurricane’ Carter, dies at 75 ...
The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical sports drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison.The film stars Denzel Washington as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a former middleweight boxer who was wrongly convicted of a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey.
In 1966, he was the lead detective who coached witnesses in the homicide case at Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey, in order to implicate boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John Artis. [1] Carter and Artis were ultimately convicted and served nearly two decades in prison before the convictions were overturned in 1985.