Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, boxer wrongly convicted of murder, dies - CNN

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Middleweight boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter poses for a photo in March 1965.



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• Denzel Washinton was nominated for an Oscar for portraying Rubin Carter


• Carter wrote in a 2011 book that he was guilty of other crimes but not murder


• A federal judge said Carter and another man failed to receive fair trials


• Carter lived in Toronto after he was freed from prison

(CNN) -- Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the middleweight boxing contender who spent 19 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of a triple murder, has died in Toronto, according to Win Wahrer, the director of client services for the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted.



Carter, 76, died of complications from prostate cancer, Wahrer said.



"I always remember spending hours and hours with Rubin talking about the wrongful convictions," she told CNN. "He was a great mentor and teacher. I felt very fortunate to have those times with him. ... He lived a very full life."



Carter spent 19 years in prison for a triple killing in New Jersey before a federal judge ruled in 1985 that he and John Artis, who was with Carter on the night of the shootings, did not receive fair trials and released them.



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