Rubin Carter, conhecido como Hurricane ( Clifton, Nova Jrsei, 6 de maio de 1937 - Toronto, 20 de abril de 2014) foi um boxeador peso mdio norte-americano no perodo entre 1961 e 1966, conhecido por travar uma longa disputa judicial aps ser preso por assassinato . As a boxer, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who has died aged 76, was a middleweight Sonny Liston, an ex-convict whose only skill seemed to be inflicting hurt, which made him all the more intimidating to opponents. KALISH: Rubin Carter was born in 1937 in Clifton, New Jersey, one of seven children. "My mom only got to the third grade, and my dad only made it to the ninth grade," said Artis. He took up boxing but after 21 months was discharged as unfit after committing multiple disciplinary offences. Carter had dinner at his Paterson home with his wife at about 5 p.m., then put on an outfit that surely would attract attention black pants, red vest, and white sport coat. A detective taped one interrogation of Bello in 1966, and when it was played during the recantation hearing, defense attorneys argued that the tape revealed promises beyond what Bello had testified to. His parents are supportive of his musical interests. Police soon arrived, and escorted the handcuffed Conforti through a gauntlet of black residents to a waiting police car. That night, Nauyoks' wife was in Michigan, visiting relatives. He played semi-pro football with the Paterson Panthers and kept in shape. Police discovered months late that someone but not the killers removed cash from the register. Carter resigned when the AIDWYC declined to support Carter's protest of the appointment (to a judgeship) of Susan MacLean, who was the prosecutor of Canadian Guy Paul Morin,[42] who served over eighteen months in prison for rape and murder until exonerated by DNA evidence. In 1965, however, Carter opted not to march with King in Selma, Alabama, because he feared he couldn't adhere to King's strategy of non-violence. Although the police say they found the shotgun shell and bullet the night of the shootings, they did not log the items in as evidence until five days later. Carter escaped before his six-year term was up and in 1954 he joined the Army, where he served in a segregated corps and began training as a boxer. Born in nearby Clifton to Bertha and Lloyd Carter, Rubin grew up in. His killer was white. His father ran an ice-delivery service and worked in a rubber factory. [7] At 5ft 8in (1.73m), Carter was shorter than the average middleweight, but he fought all of his professional career at 155160lb (7072.6kg). He fled from the reformatory in 1954 and was able to join the U.S. Army where he was deployed to . Conforti was eventually convicted of second-degree murder and spent almost 15 years in prison. Carter and Artis, a decade apart in age, knew each other both acknowledge that. The .32 slug hit him in the left temple and passed through his forehead near his right eye without killing him. He claimed the man was a pedophile who had been attempting to molest one of his friends. And in Harlem, Malcolm X had been gunned down by three black men, one of whom was from Paterson. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 - April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted of murder and later released following a petition of habeas corpus after serving almost 20 years in prison. Hogan was asked on cross examinations whether any bribes or inducements were offered to Bello to secure his recantation, which Hogan denied. Or were Carter, then 29 and a well-known boxer, and Artis, 19 and a former high school track star who spent his days driving a delivery truck, unjustly imprisoned for most of two decades? [43], Carter's second marriage was to Lisa Peters.[when?] [18], The defense, led by Raymond A. Both came in through the front door. And finally, said Caruso, when he and others tried to question Valentine and other witnesses, they discovered that a Passaic County prosecution detective, Lt. Vincent DeSimone, may have been coaching them in ways that would implicate Carter. In 1965, Carter fought twice at the Royal Albert Hall in London, beating Harry Scott by a technical knockout, and then losing the rematch on the referee's decision a month later, after knocking Scott down in the first round. "My nickname was 'Dancing Boy,'" said Artis. No facilities to test for gunshot residue were available then, and no fingerprints were taken. Bello told police he was walking down Lafayette Street to buy a pack of cigarettes when he heard shots and saw two black men with guns leave the bar and jump into the white getaway car with blue and gold plates and butterfly taillights. "It was pretty difficult," he recalls. [citation needed] During his visit to London to fight Scott, Carter was involved in an incident in which a shot was fired in his hotel room. Again, here is where the tales by the prosecution and defense split into distinctive sets of facts. [2] A few months after completing basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, he was sent to West Germany. He did arrange for an expert to conduct lie detector tests, which they passed; in 1976, a second report was discovered, claiming they failed. Two years later, after an incriminating tape of a police interview with Bello and Bradley surfaced and The New York Times ran an expos about the case, the New Jersey State Supreme Court ruled 7-0 to overturn Carter's and Artis's convictions. To the right of the two men sat a lone woman, who got off work earlier than usual that night from her waitress job at a country club. But, again, there was one important difference. Although the defense produced witnesses who verified that Carter and Artis were at another bar at the time of the shooting, both the accused were given life sentences for each of the three murders. 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's main weapon was a ferocious left-hook, but his reliance on it left his jab insufficient. Each Christmas, Bill Panagia says he makes a special trip to a cemetery in Paramus and places a wreath on the grave of Jim Oliver, the bartender who took his mother's place that night at the Lafayette Grill. Bello stepped over the bleeding bodies and took $62 from the cash register. Captor, who recognized Carter, politely told the three men that there had been a shooting, and then let Artis drive away. Judge Samuel Larner denied the motion on December 11, saying they "lacked the ring of truth". When it came to taverns, whites had their neighborhood bars, like the Lafayette Grill, and blacks had theirs, like the Waltz Inn. ", Said Carter's biographer: "Eddie Rawls is definitely the wild card.". Asked in a recent interview, former Paterson Deputy Chief Robert Mohl has an answer: "Are you a smoker? 2 talking about this. The couple separated later. In the 1976 trial, Prosecutor Burrell Ives Humphreys said, "Eddie Rawls is all over this case," and he theorized that Carter and Artis hid the weapons at Rawls' house. 159 Rubin Carter Boxer Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Images Images Creative Editorial Video Creative Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 159 Rubin Carter Boxer Premium High Res Photos Browse 159 rubin carter boxer stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. The state continued to appeal Sarokin's decision all the way to the United States Supreme Court until February 1988, when a Passaic County (NJ) state judge formally dismissed the 1966 indictments of Carter and Artis and finally ended the 22-year long saga. Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, once a 160-pound middleweight championship contender, now weighs half that and lies bed-ridden in Toronto. [citation needed]. He gets along well with his brother Jack. His aggressive style and punching power (resulting in many early-round knockouts) drew attention, establishing him as a crowd favorite and earning him the nickname "Hurricane". Hirsch contends that the expected behavior of killers would be to speed out of Paterson as quickly as possible hence, the theory that police missed the real getaway car when they took a roundabout route to chase. Carter denies this. In 1985, the case was heard in federal court and Judge Haddon Lee Sarokin of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey overturned the convictions. [30] After deliberating for almost nine hours, the jury again found Carter and Artis guilty of the murders. In the meantime, Carter, the former Redskins defensive line coach (1999-2000), has other football news about which to get excited. Artis, an only child, remembers being devastated. [9] That win resulted in The Ring's ranking of Carter as the number three contender for Joey Giardello's world middleweight title. The woman was the killers' final target. [2 Biografi. Near one end of the bar, he remembers hearing Tanis groan in pain. Two others were injured (one of whom died a month later). Rubin Carter, also known as the Hurricane, was a Canadian middleweight boxer. ", DeSimone died in 1979. They also argued that, since the expended rounds retrieved at the scene were also a mixture, the fact that the two rounds did not match was meaningless; what did matter was they were the same caliber as those used in the shootings. Approximately 10 minutes after the shots were fired, Sergeant Theodore Capter of the Paterson Police Department stopped 29-year-old Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's white Dodge Polara. But Caruso agreed to talk about its contents, and The Record obtained affidavits corroborating his findings. Police did not conduct paraffin tests to detect traces of burned gunpowder on the hands or clothes of Carter and Artis. The next to die was Fred Nauyoks. This is the . In 1982, the Supreme Court of New Jersey affirmed his convictions (43). Carter notes, however, that after the news of the murder of Rawls' stepfather, many blacks talked of a possible riot or some sort of trouble "a shaking," as Carter described it in his grand jury testimony. The Lafayette Grill is now called Len's Place. But the technician's testimony underscores a fact that has since come to hover over the killings: Cops were so lax in securing the crime scene that they were never able to detect whether the killers might have left footprints in the blood as they departed. Their suspicions were not just based on a hunch, though. What emerged next is a tale with two distinct plots or, as U.S. District Court Judge H. Lee Sarokin said in his landmark 1985 decision overturning Carter's and Artis' convictions, "two dramatically different versions of events" with evidence that is "often conflicting and sometimes murky.". Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a self-admitted street thug, having spent several years in juvenile detention for muggings. As Tanis slumped to the floor, the man with the .32-caliber pistol fired five shots at her from as close as 10 inches, hitting her four times in the right breast, the lower abdomen, the vagina, and the genital area. . Before he had time to check behind the bar, Lawless heard the sirens of approaching police cruisers and an ambulance. He has an older brother named Jack, who was diagnosed with autism at the age of two. Instead of turning the corner and chasing the cars, the cruiser took a roundabout route by the Passaic River in what police later explained was an attempt to cut off the white car near the Paterson-Elmwood Park border. Campaigns were organized to garner public support for a retrial or pardon. His actions to defenders of Carter and Artis, anyway beg this question: Why would someone interrupt a burglary to buy cigarettes? Although lawyers for Carter continued the struggle, the New Jersey State Supreme Court rejected their appeal for a third trial in the fall of 1982, affirming the convictions by a 4-3 decision. He worked with Chaiton and Swinton on a book, Lazarus and the Hurricane: The Untold Story of the Freeing of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, published in 1991. In 1999 Carter was played by Denzel Washington in a film, Hurricane, directed by the Canadian Norman Jewison. He is the winner of season 19 of the American talent competition The Voice at the age of 15. [citation needed], In March 2012, while attending the International Justice Conference in Burswood, Western Australia, Carter revealed that he had terminal prostate cancer. Carter had attracted a group from a Toronto commune, who worked tirelessly on his behalf. It has been 34 years now, and people still can't agree on what happened at Paterson's Lafayette Grill. But his son and others doubt that he engaged in such tactics. Carter was stocky and muscular, Artis angular, but not thin. What also struck Caruso as being especially odd was that the police never bothered to photograph tire skid marks even though Valentine and another witness told police the getaway car screeched as it sped away. But that may be more of an accident of social customs than an outright act of racism. As Oliver turned to run the length of the bar, past an ice cooler and toward the overhead television set, a single shotgun blast from about seven feet away tore into his lower back, the 12-gauge round ripping open a 2-inch by 1-inch hole and severing his spinal column. "They told me there was a shooting. "We do not have the facility to take a paraffin test at present," said DeSimone, adding that the authorities would have had to bring in an expert fairly fast before gunpowder residue had disappeared. [4] While in Germany, Carter began to box for the Army. In an interview, he said prosecutors and police not only stonewalled attempts to examine the case with a fresh eye but deliberately manipulated evidence. The memoir, which was never published, was titled "The Media Meddlers.". [48][49], In the months leading up to his death, Carter had worked for the exoneration of David McCallum, a Brooklyn man who had been incarcerated since 1985 on charges of murder. By 1966, Carter was well known in Paterson and not just as a boxer. In 1974, the New Jersey public defenders office received recantations from the witnesses, Bello and Bradley. On the night of June 17, 1966, two black men shot and killed three white people at the Lafayette Bar and Grill in Paterson. His convictions were overturned in 1985 and he dedicated the rest of his life advocating for the wrongly convicted. Remembering Just Fontaine and His World Cup Record, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads, Name: Rubin Carter, Birth Year: 1937, Birth date: May 6, 1937, Birth State: New Jersey, Birth City: Clifton, Birth Country: United States. Find Rubin Carter's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. After his release in 1985, Carter married his supporter Lisa Peters, in Canada. He and his partner returned to the streets to try to find it. Gazing across the room, past the pool table, Lawless noticed Nauyoks and Marins. When the police cruiser arrived at the border, no car was in sight. Name: Rubin Carter Birth Year: 1937 Birth date: May 6, 1937 Birth State: New Jersey Birth City: Clifton Birth Country: United States Gender: Male Best Known For: Boxer Rubin Carter was twice. .css-m6thd4{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;display:block;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-family:Gilroy,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.2;font-weight:bold;color:#323232;text-transform:capitalize;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-m6thd4:hover{color:link-hover;}}Remembering Just Fontaine and His World Cup Record, The Man Behind the First All-Black Basketball Team, 8 Times Brothers Have Faced Off in a Championship, Every Black Quarterback to Play in the Super Bowl, Soccer Star Christian Atsu Survived an Earthquake. Carter's car seemed to match Valentine's and Bello's descriptions of the getaway car right down to the distinctive butterfly description of the taillight chrome that both reportedly gave to police. Rubin Carter was born on May 6, 1937, in Clifton, New Jersey. But Hollywood later made a movie, "Hurricane," in which Denzel Washington brilliantly portrayed Carter as a wrongfully convicted near-saint, hounded mercilessly by . He and Artis were questioned, given inconclusive lie detector tests, and, when the shooting's survivor failed to identify Carter, released again. What both sides agree on is that nothing even remotely resembling a riot took place. An all-white jury found both men guilty, but recommended against the death penalty; Carter was sentenced to life in prison. Rubin Carter. Nevertheless, on June 29, 1967, Carter and Artis were convicted of triple murder and sentenced to three life prison terms. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a self-admitted street thug, having spent several years in juvenile detention for muggings. [34], In 1985, Carter's attorneys filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal court. Prosecutors insist that Carter started talking about guns that had been stolen from him a year earlier and that he suddenly wanted to find them. At the same time, such a journey also reveals evidence that has never been challenged and, yet, still contributes to the mystery. From there, the mystery that involves a man called "Hurricane" spread like cracks on a broken mirror. Whatever his thoughts at that fearsome moment, police say, one of Oliver's last acts of life was to hurl an empty beer bottle at the killers. Nauyoks was well-known in the area as a billiard player, and his relatives remember that he went by two nicknames "Paterson Bob" and "Cedar Grove Bob." Finally, a federal judge overturned the convictions, and Carter was released. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the boxer whose wrongful murder conviction became an international symbol of racial injustice and inspired Bob Dylan's 1975 song "Hurricane,", died Sunday. On December 7, 1975, Dylan performed the song at a concert at Trenton State Prison, where Carter was temporarily an inmate. Left behind, according to the original police report, was $72 in Nauyoks' wallet, $51 in Tanis' white purse, $30 on the floor by Oliver's body, and cash in the register that "appeared to be untouched." But riots had erupted in Watts, Detroit even in Paterson. He took. Also, Eddie Rawls was brought to police headquarters for questioning and asked to take a lie detector test. In 1985 Carter was freed. Police say that just after the 2:34 a.m. call to headquarters about a shooting, a police cruiser heading toward the Lafayette Grill spotted a white car with New York license plates, followed by a black car, speeding along 12th Avenue in a direction that might have been heading toward Route 4. As Oliver fell, a $10 bill and four $5 bills scattered on the floor. If he went to college, he wouldn't be drafted. It was much derided for simplifying or misrepresenting much of the story. Despite this oral report, Harrelson's subsequent written report stated that Bello's 1967 testimony had been truthful. "To DeSimone and his acolytes, two cold-blooded murderers were freed. A year later on November 8, 1985, District Judge Haddon Lee Sarokin ruled that Rubin Carter and John Artis would be free men, due to the fact that . Caruso even made note of his concerns in a secret file later dubbed "The Caruso File" that was a subject of a bitter legal fight after Carter and Artis were convicted again for the Lafayette Grill killings in 1976. She and her sisters, Helen and Anita, performed as the Carter Sisters, with. On the night of June 16, Artis put on a light blue mohair sweater with his initials monogrammed on the breast, light-blue pants, and gold suede loafers. He and Peters were married, but the couple separated when Carter moved out of the commune. Jim Lawless had spent much of the previous six hours collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses at the Waltz Inn. His convictions were overturned in 1985 and he dedicated the rest of his life advocating for the wrongly convicted. Perhaps most controversial, however, was a 1964 profile of Carter in the Saturday Evening Post just before his middleweight title fight. . Patricia Graham Valentine, then 23, and a waitress at a delicatessen across town near the courthouse, lived in an apartment one floor above the Lafayette Grill. Prosecutors denied the charge. Best Known For: Boxer Rubin Carter was twice wrongly convicted of a triple murder and imprisoned for nearly two decades. "It was headquarters," recalls Jim Lawless, now 72, retired, and living in Fort Pierce, Florida, after rising to the rank of deputy chief in the Paterson Police Department. On October 14, 2005, he received two honorary Doctorates of Law, one from York University (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and one from Griffith University (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), in recognition of his work with AIDWYC and the Innocence Project. Carter had been battling prostate cancer for three years, said Win Wahrer, an official with the Association in Defence of the. The Ominous Night Carter was married in 1963 and soon after he and his wife, Mae Thelma, had a daughter named Theodora. Rubin Hurricane Carter, Ken Klonsky (2011). Now, the state had produced two eyewitnesses, Alfred Bello and Arthur D. Bradley, who had made positive identifications. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was boxing's most feared middleweight contender in the early 1960s. In the 1976 retrial, Bello withdrew his recantation and said Carter was at the scene with a shotgun. "Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom", p.93, Chicago Review . Artis was also looking to have a good time. 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. Carter and Artis were asked to take lie detector exams and both agreed. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [citation needed], Valentine initially stated the car had rear lights which lit up completely like butterflies; at the retrial in 1976, she changed this to an accurate description of Carter's car, which had conventional tail-lights with aluminum decoration in a butterfly shape. Rubin " Hurricane " Carter (May 6, 1937 - April 20, 2014) was a middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted of murder [1] and later released following a petition of habeas corpus after spending almost 20 years in prison. The New York Times wrote: "Her daughter, Barbara Burns, stayed with her . "He's probably a co-conspirator," said former Paterson Deputy Police Chief Robert Mohl, "but I can't prove it. Two months later, he was indicted for murder. When questioned, both told police the shooters had been black males, but neither identified Carter or John Artis. The place even had a special "champ's corner" for the popular boxer. He was released after the police realized their error. He had recently lost his student deferment and had been reclassified as 1-A for the draft. In 1963, he married Mae Thelma Basket. The other witness, Alfred Bello, also 23, told police he was on the sidewalk outside the bar when two black men left the Lafayette and sped away in a white car. Carter and Jack appear on a variety of occasions. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, fdd 6 maj 1937 i Clifton, New Jersey, dd 20 april 2014 i Toronto, Ontario, [1] var en amerikansk boxare under 1960-talet. "If you believe that Carter did this, you have to believe that he and Artis would manage to get rid of the weapons and their bloody clothes, and casually drive around the streets of Paterson until police picked them up.". Another type of Dodge the Monaco had across-the-back butterfly lights. Bradley refused to cooperate with prosecutors, and neither prosecution nor defense called him as a witness. In August 1966, Carter lost a fight against Rocky Rivero in Argentina. In Philadelphia, he joined the United States Army and started training in boxing. After 17 hours of interrogation, they were released. The Philadelphia Daily News reported the alleged beating in a front-page story several weeks later, and celebrity support for Carter quickly eroded, though Carter denied the accusation and there was insufficient evidence for legal prosecution. Like many black athletes, he had begun to speak out on race relations. Bello also admitted to Mohl that he and Bradley later returned to the warehouse after the Lafayette killings and broke in. Carter flipped him the keys to his white Dodge. All rights reserved. [13], Valentine lived above the bar, and heard the shots; like Bello, she reported seeing two black men leave the bar, then get into a white car. [3] Carter escaped from the reformatory in 1954 and joined the United States Army. Although there was, in the words of Carter's lawyer, "a mountain" of circumstantial evidence against them, much of it came with problems attached, due to sloppy forensic work and the possibility that witnesses had been coached retrospectively. Carter . He would also refuse to testify, telling prosecutors through his lawyer that if subpoenaed, he would cite his constitutional right against self-incrimination.
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