Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter Has Died

[Iron Woode]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/0...ple-murder-loses-battle-with-prostate-cancer/

How very sad for such a strong man to pass away.

TORONTO — Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the boxer whose wrongful murder conviction became an international symbol of racial injustice, has died at 76.

John Artis, a longtime friend and caregiver, said Carter died in his sleep Sunday. Carter had been stricken with prostate cancer in Toronto, the New Jersey native’s adopted home.

Carter spent 19 years in prison for three murders at a tavern in Paterson, N.J., in 1966. He was convicted alongside Artis in 1967 and again in a new trial in 1976.

Carter was freed in November 1985 when his convictions were set aside after years of appeals and public advocacy. His ordeal and the alleged racial motivations behind it were publicized in Bob Dylan’s 1975 song “Hurricane,” several books and a 1999 film starring Denzel Washington, who received an Academy Award nomination for playing the boxer turned prisoner.

 

[dennilfloss]

First I heard of his story was in the mid 70s from a Bob Dylan song and later when Canadian lawyers helped overturn his conviction.

 

[Markbnj]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlf05o_bob-dylan-hurricane-1975-live_music

RIP.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Let's have an honest discussion here.

Did he actually murder those people? And please don't answer just because you saw the movie. I saw it, too, and this is a legit question.

 

[Baasha]

Let's have an honest discussion here.

Did he actually murder those people? And please don't answer just because you saw the movie. I saw it, too, and this is a legit question.

Are you a member on Stormfront?

Stop drinking the kool-aid and look at the facts - his case was overturned after intense scrutiny; not some hodgepodge feel-good bullshit.

Stop being so goddamned cynical.

 

[mrjminer]

Let's have an honest discussion here.

Did he actually murder those people? And please don't answer just because you saw the movie. I saw it, too, and this is a legit question.

Read the Wikipedia page for the quick overview. Basically, he was tried and convicted twice, but after the second conviction was overturned due to the lack of evidence / racially motivated investigation, they decided that they weren't going to bother even trying to convict him again since it had been 20+ years since the first conviction. He probably wouldn't have been convicted the first time if the process had been done objectively throughout

I doubt anyone will ever know if he really did it, or who really did it at this point (been about 50 years). If they did have anything else to go on that was credible, I think all the hype would have gotten results at one of those points where the case was in the limelight.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Are you a member on Stormfront?

Stop drinking the kool-aid and look at the facts - his case was overturned after intense scrutiny; not some hodgepodge feel-good bullshit.

Stop being so goddamned cynical.

You should read this:

Read the Wikipedia page for the quick overview. Basically, he was tried and convicted twice, but after the second conviction was overturned due to the lack of evidence / racially motivated investigation, they decided that they weren't going to bother even trying to convict him again since it had been 20+ years since the first conviction. He probably wouldn't have been convicted the first time if the process had been done objectively throughout

I doubt anyone will ever know if he really did it, or who really did it at this point (been about 50 years). If they did have anything else to go on that was credible, I think all the hype would have gotten results at one of those points where the case was in the limelight.

^That is how you have a discussion. The main reason I asked is because I read this once and it made me really wonder:

http://cyberboxingzone.yuku.com/topic/1063/t/Rubin-Carter-Guilty-or-Not.html?page=2#.U1St8hEU_b0

The site referenced in one of the top posts on that page has been very recently taken down, so that also looks kind of shady, but just look at what some of those guys say about him. You could see why I would ask.