Was the Rubin “the hurricane” Carter trial one of the biggest miscarriages of justice ever???
Not at all. While it’s quite possible that Carter was in fact innocent, there was more than enough evidence that one can say that the conviction was fairly obtained, even if, in the end, it was incorrect. Do not base your opinions about a trial on the way it’s represented in a movie or a book. . “The Hurricane” does not even come close to being a factual account of the situation. Both the book and the movie were made both for entertainment value, and to push the writers specific point of view. There have been many, many, far more blatant miscarriages. Take a read through the cases on the “Innocence Project” home page for some of the worst, and these are cases where, thanks to DNA evidence, we “know” that the released person was innocent – whereas many people still believe that Carter was guilty. As a recent example, look at the “New York Jogger” case. Four black teens were convicted of gang-raping a young white woman and beating her almost to death in New Yorks Central Park in 1989. Th
