Editing The Hurricane (1999 film) (section)

==Plot==
In 1966, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a promising and top-ranked middleweight boxer from Paterson, New Jersey, who was expected by many fans in to become the world's greatest boxing champion. However, a bartender and two customers were shot to death in a bar, Carter and his friend John Artis, driving home from another club in Paterson, were stopped and interrogated by the police moments after the crime while the police were investigating the killings.

Although the police asserted that Carter and Artis were innocent and thus, "were never suspects," letting them go after questioning them, a man named Alfred Bello, a suspect himself in the killings, who was also questioned by police claimed that Carter and Artis were present at the time of the murders and committed the killings themselves. On the basis of Bello's testimony, Carter and Artis were convicted of the triple homicide in the bar, and Carter was given three consecutive life sentences.

Throughout his time in prison, Carter proclaimed his innocence, claiming that his race was the real reasons for his conviction while he wrote and published his autobiography. Eight years later, Bello and a co-suspect, Arthur Bradley, who also claimed that Carter was present at the scene of the crimes, renounced and recanted their testimony. However, Carter and Artis were convicted once again.

Following the second trial that sent Carter and Artis back to prison,  [[Lesra Martin]], an underprivileged Afro-American youth from Brooklyn, goes to live in [[Toronto]] with a group of Canadian activists who see his academic potential and offer to raise him as his tutors. In the 1980s, he becomes interested in Carter's life after purchasing a copy of Carter's autobiography which he reads and is convinced of his innocence after which he and his Canadian foster family commit themselves to Carter's case as they join Carter's legal team to push the State of New Jersey to reexamine Carter's case.

In 1985, a Federal District Court presided over by Judge [[H. Lee Sarokin]] of the [[United States District Court for the District of New Jersey]], ruled that the prosecution in Carter's second trial committed "grave constitutional violations" and that his conviction was based on racism rather than facts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter dies at 76; boxer wrongly imprisoned 19 years |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-rubin-carter-20140421-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=31 May 2024 |date=21 April 2014}}</ref> As a result, Carter (and later Artis) were finally freed. Both before and after the verdict that set him free, Carter summed up his story by saying, "Hate got me into prison, love got me out."