[deport]

[DIRTYSECRET]

Don’t know the story. For that I have a question: How bad was his rap sheet? If it was his first and only incident then indeed, justice did not prevail. But if like too many others, he kept getting into trouble beforehand I say ‘you win some, you lose some.’ There’s too much power in victimization.

[FlJoePa]

I always think of Wooderson entering the Emporium [Dazed and Confused] whenever I see his name.

[Gay State Conservative]

Was it ever reliably shown that he was wrongly convicted or is it simply that some,including that judge,believe there was insufficient evidence..."beyond a reasonable doubt"...that he was guilty.That is...was there compelling evidence that he was in Cleveland...or in prison...or in church (with many unbiased witnesses to his presence there)...or in the hospital...when the murders happened? Or are there reliable accounts of one or more of the jurors saying "let's get that n*gger"? If any of those things are true then it's easy to see how he might have been...or how he was *clearly*...innocent.

Otherwise,I skeptical.

[Beowulf9]

Here’s the song by Bob:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGMSfiH850o

[Kenny500c]

Must read.

http://www.martinlutherking.org/hurricane1.html

[MUDDOG]

Immortalized in a Bob Dylan song

William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll...

[Reo]

Dylan wrote a great song, but the real life coda was disappointing.

From Wikipedia: According to Carolyn Kelley, a 61-year-old from Newark working as a bail bondswoman in 1975, she was asked to get involved in the effort to win a new trial for Mr. Carter. She devoted more than a year to raising funds for Mr. Carter. Mr. Carter's appeal was upheld. In March 1976, Mr. Carter was released on bail to await a new trial. A few weeks later, Mrs. Kelly says the boxer beat her into unconsciousness in his hotel room during a meeting she sought with him over affairs relating to her involvement with his cause. Rumors of the beating got out. Finally, Chuck Stone, a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, broke the story of the alleged beating in a front-page article. After Mr. Stone's column ran, the alleged beating became a national story. Mr. Carter's celebrity support melted away."

[Eagles6]

http://members.shaw.ca/cartermyths/

[SamAdams76]

Well the whole episode did result in one of the greatest Bob Dylan songs being written. Hopefully Bob shared some royalties with Hurricane after he got out of prison.

[longfellow]

From what i heard his story is bullshitte. If you watch the fight he claims to have won, he didn’t.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[PhiloBedo]

Reminds me of the line uttered by Howie Long’s character in 2000 Miles to Graceland.

“He’s so bad, Bob Dylan wrote a song to keep him in prison”.

[newfreep]

Different studio take of Dylan’s song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr8Wn1Mwwwk

[dfwgator]

Looks like Hurricane has been downgraded.

[dfwgator]

The original Mumia.

[PghBaldy]

While leftists won’t admit it, “wrongly convicted” does NOT necessarily mean “innocent.”

[a fool in paradise]

Once freed, Carter began a new life in Canada and devoted himself to helping others who were wrongly convicted.

Once freed, he beat the crap out of his girlfriend.

Liberals support losers.

The Demcrapweasel War on Women continues.