介绍:
This week saw the death of Rubin "hurricane" carter, the black boxer who was wrongly impressed for murder in1966. Mr. Carter became a symbolic figure during his fight for justice. He was eventually freed over 20 years after his arrest becoming the subject of a Bob Dylan song in the process and the subject of a Hollywood film with Denzel Washington as a result. Here is his co defendant John Artis who was wrong convicted along side the fighter talking about that fateful night.
(Today/soundbites/0424 Rubin)
"So Rubin said what's the problem and he said we are looking for two Negros but there were three of us in the car. We were stopped by the same police officer at an intersection and he didn't bother to tell other police officers that arrived that he had already seen us and that now there were only two people in the car. They took us to the scene of the crime and that was the begging of the nightmare. Since it was a first degree murder case, it's the only time in New Jersey law that the jury decides your fate. So when the foreman stood out and said they found us guilty my knees buckled, that's the most afraid I've ever been. After staring at both of us he finally said with a plea for mercy. If he hadn't of said that me and Rubin would have been put on death row."
