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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder, until released following a petition of habeas corpus after almost 20 years in prison.
Feb 8, 2024 · Boxer Rubin Carter was twice wrongly convicted of a triple murder and imprisoned for nearly two decades. His convictions were overturned in 1985 and he dedicated the rest of his life advocating...
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Rubin Carter, also known as the “Hurricane,” was a Canadian middleweight boxer. He was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent almost 20 years in jail, before being released after a petition of “habeas corpus.”
Apr 3, 2019 · The BBC’s World Service has been investigating three murders that took place at the Lafayette Bar and Grill in Paterson, New Jersey in 1966. Over the past 15 weeks ‘The Hurricane Tapes ...
Apr 28, 2003 · Rubin (Hurricane) Carter had been in prison for 13 years, serving a life sentence for a triple murder he did not commit - a brutal slaying at a bar in Paterson, N.J., in 1966. His career as prizefighter, a top middleweight contender, was over.
Apr 21, 2014 · Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, who died on Easter Sunday, had been transformed into a living symbol of justice denied long before he began the last chapter of his life as a free man in Toronto.
Apr 20, 2014 · Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, a star prizefighter whose career was cut short by a murder conviction in New Jersey and who became an international cause célèbre while imprisoned for 19 years before...
