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Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was an American middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder, until released following a petition of habeas corpus after almost 20 years in prison.
John Artis was the co-defendant of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. The two men were wrongfully convicted twice (1967 and 1976) of a triple murder in Paterson, New Jersey due to prosecutorial misconduct and police perjury.