Rubin Carter

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (born May 6, 1937), middleweight boxer from 1961?1966, is better known for his controversial convictions (1967, 1976) for the alleged murder of three people at the Lafayette Grill, Paterson, New Jersey, in June, 1966, and his subsequent release from prison (1985).

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The question of Carter?s guilt or innocence remains a strongly polarizing one, however, this much is certain: either the criminal justice system imprisoned an innocent man for almost 20 years, or it released a triple murderer from the punishment that two separate juries had recommended.

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Middleweight: Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1867. Chandler won, ...

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