For the American Football player of the same name, see Rubin Carter (American football).
Not to be confused with Carter Rubin.
Rubin Carter
Carter at Bunker Hill Community College in 2011
Born
(1937-05-06)May 6, 1937
Clifton, New Jersey, U.S.
Died
April 20, 2014(2014-04-20) (aged 76)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Citizenship
United States
Canada
Spouse
Mae Thelma Basket
Lisa Peters
Children
2
Boxing career
Other names
The Hurricane
Statistics
Weight(s)
Middleweight (160lb / 73kg)
Height
5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Stance
Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights
40
Wins
27
Wins by KO
19
Losses
12
Draws
1
Signature
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder,[1] until released following a petition of habeas corpus after almost 20 years in prison.
In 1966, Carter, and his co-accused, John Artis, were arrested for a triple homicide which was committed at the Lafayette Bar and Grill in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Shortly after the killings at 2:30 am, a car, carrying Carter, Artis, and a third man, was stopped by police outside the bar while its occupants were on their way home from a nearby nightclub. They were allowed to go on their way but, after dropping off the third man, Carter and Artis were stopped and arrested while they were passing the bar a second time, 45 minutes later.
Carter and Artis were interrogated for 17 hours, released, then re-arrested weeks later. In 1967, they were convicted of all three murders, and given life sentences, to be served in Rahway State Prison; a retrial in 1976 upheld their sentences, but they were overturned in 1985. Prosecutors appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but declined to try the case a third time after the appeal failed.
Carter's autobiography, titled The Sixteenth Round, written while he was in prison, was published in 1974 by Viking Press. The story inspired the 1975 Bob Dylan song "Hurricane" and the 1999 film The Hurricane, starring Denzel Washington as Carter. From 1993 to 2005, Carter served as executive director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (later rebranded as Innocence Canada).
In 2019, the case was the focus of a 13-part BBC podcast series, The Hurricane Tapes. The series was based on interviews which were conducted with survivors, case notes which were taken during the original investigations, and 40 hours of recorded interviews of Carter by the author Ken Klonsky, who cited them in his 2011 book The Eye of the Hurricane.
^"Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter dead at 76". CBC News. April 20, 2014. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
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