Rubin Carter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rubin Carter

American boxer

Date of Birth: 06-May-1937

Place of Birth: Clifton, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 20-Apr-2014

Profession: boxer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted of murder and later released following a petition of habeas corpus after serving almost 20 years in prison. In 1966, police arrested Carter and friend John Artis for a triple homicide committed at the Lafayette Bar and Grill in Paterson, New Jersey.
Police stopped Carter's car and brought him and Artis, also in the car, to the scene of the crime.
Police did not take fingerprints at the crime scene and lacked the facilities to conduct a paraffin test for gunshot residue.
Carter and Artis were tried twice for the murders in 1967 and 1976 and convicted; both served time in Rahway State Prison.
After the second conviction was overturned in 1985, prosecutors chose not to try the case for a third time. Carter's autobiography, titled The Sixteenth Round, written while he was in prison, was published in 1975 by Warner Books.
The story inspired the 1975 Bob Dylan song "Hurricane" and the 1999 film The Hurricane (with Denzel Washington playing Carter).
From 1993 to 2005, Carter served as executive director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted.