legal case State of New Jersey v. Rubin Carter

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The legal case State of New Jersey v. Rubin Carter was the high-profile criminal prosecution of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter for a 1966 triple murder, later widely criticized as a wrongful conviction and ultimately overturned.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf criminal case
legal case
wrongful conviction case
appeal New Jersey Supreme Court
charge first-degree murder
triple murder
constitutionalBasis Fourteenth Amendment
due process violations
country United States
dateOfCrime 1966-06-17
defendant John Artis
Rubin Carter
federalCourtHolding convictions vacated
federalDecisionDate 1985-11-07
federalDecisionYear 1985
federalJudge H. Lee Sarokin
finalStatus charges dismissed
finalStatusYear 1988
habeasCorpusCourt United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
initialConviction 1967
initialTrialYear 1967
initialVerdict guilty
jurisdiction State of New Jersey
keyEvidenceType alleged confession
ballistics evidence
eyewitness testimony
laterCriticism racial bias in investigation and prosecution
suppression of exculpatory evidence
unreliable eyewitness testimony
legalSignificance example of federal habeas relief overturning state conviction
landmark in U.S. wrongful conviction discourse
nicknameOfDefendant Hurricane
notableCulturalImpact basis for 1999 film "The Hurricane"
inspired Bob Dylan song "Hurricane"
occupationOfDefendant professional boxer
placeOfCrime Lafayette Bar and Grill, Paterson, New Jersey
postVacaturAction State of New Jersey declined to retry
prosecutor State of New Jersey
reasonForVacatur prosecution based on concealment rather than disclosure
prosecution based on racism rather than reason
retrialVerdict guilty
retrialYear 1976
sentence life imprisonment
subjectOf numerous books and documentaries on wrongful convictions
victim Fred Nauyoks
Hazel Tanis
James Oliver
victimCount 3
yearOfCrime 1966

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