Have John Artis and Rubin Carter had any legal troubles since being released?
Yes. John Artis was arrested for cocaine distribution was the charge, I think. It is my understanding that he was selling or involved in the distribution of cocaine to high school kids. He was arrested and prosecuted and I think that he went back to jail, and now he’s supposedly working with troubled youths in Virginia. Carter was set free on bail and Muhammad Ali came to pick him up on March of 1976. Ali actually bailed him out in March and then in April, Carter went down by invitation to Ali’s fight in Maryland and that’s where he beat the crap out of a woman that was his main defender in New Jersey that was in charge of his defense group in New Jersey. He beat her, and they kept it quiet for months, and there was a reporter named Chuck Stone that got wind of the story and he broke it months after the incident occurred. After that, people realized that Carter wasn’t what he was put up to be. He wasn’t the good guy that everyone thought that he was, and that is why at his trial in 197
