Title Ruben Hurricane Carter



Title Ruben Hurricane Carter

Introduction

This paper discusses the case of Rubin Hurricane Carter in detail. Eighteen years ago, was acquitted of the charge of three murders, Rubin Carter, known as "Hurricane." The story touched the heart of the whole American nation, who fought for generations by supporting his release. The likes of Muhammad Ali and Bob Dylan raised their voices in protest and in rows that follow, this final stage, will tell how things went, the night of June 17, 1966, where Carter's life is changed forever (Paul, 2000).

Case Summary

On 17 May 1967, approximately 2:30 in the night at a bar in Paterson Laffayet shootings occurred resulting in the death of three people suffered. The perpetrators fled. The only witnesses were a burglar Alfred Bello, a few people who saw the windows of two black men getting on to the car and Willie Marins, who survived the shooting and in very serious condition was taken to hospital. Thirty minutes after the incident, police arrested Carter and his friend John Artis on the road in a car matching the description of witnesses. In the car were found a revolver caliber, rifle and cartridges of the same caliber as used in the shooting. Witnesses not identified a boxer and his friend as the perpetrators. Marins on that same night in hospital after a confrontation testified: "I cannot say I do not know." As a result of police incompetence is not protected by the evidence in the form of fingerprints (Chaiton, 2000). There also are made of paraffin test for the presence of traces of firing on the fingers of Carter and Artis. The fact is that the study of polygraph has shown that both men are killers of blacks.

A few months later, Alfred Bello, "recalled" to myself that the burglary was an assistant Arthur Dexter Bradley. Both testified that Rubin Carter know and John Artis as the perpetrators of the murder. They were arrested and on the basis of circumstantial evidence and unreliable testimony sentenced to life imprisonment triple. While in prison, Carter sought to publicize his case. In 1974 he published his autobiography The Sixteenth Round. A year later, working with him, Richard Solomon, a young graduate film school made ??contact with Bob Dylan, which resulted in the creation of the famous song protest song ”Hurricane " (Chaiton, 2000). His fight for freedom helped also include Muhammad Ali, leading the protest march in Trenton on October 171975 a year to convince then-Governor Brendan Byrne to pardon Carter.

In 1976 year, with money collected by his foundation and publicity, there was another process on the Carter and Artis, who, however, found them guilty of the offenses alleged. February 1976 year Carter was sentenced to double life imprisonment. In 1985 years Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is freed, pretending to be on parole. In 1988 year, despite the prosecutor's office appealed the case is finally closed.

Discussion

In 1967, the black boxer Rubin Hurricane Carter U.S. was unjustly convicted of murder. He was eventually released in 1985, when Federal Judge H. Lee Sarokin ruled that the prosecution had violated his constitutional rights. This drama provides the veteran Norman Jewison (And Justice for All, In the Heat of the Night)-Irving Thalberg Award winner in 1999 - a great material for his long crusade against racism and injustice ...