Bob Dylan - Hurricane

The boxer's autobiography, The Sixteenth Round, which was published in 1974 while he was incarcerated, caught the attention of celebrities including singer Bob Dylan and boxer Muhammad Ali.

Dylan first met Carter while serving a prison sentence, and after realizing the former boxer was innocent, he organized a series of benefit performances to support his cause. He wrote the song Hurricane in 1975 and it quickly rose to the top of the charts.

Despite the fact that the prosecution's key witness was a convicted felon who had twice changed his version of himself, Carter and Artis were reconvicted after a second trial in 1976.

But in 1979, a black teenager living in Canada persuaded a group of Canadians, including lawyers Leon Friedman and Myron Beldock, to demand her release.

Her work was fruitful. The prosecution engaged in bad faith conduct during the two previous trials, according to a federal judge's 1985 ruling. Carter moved to Toronto after her release from prison to live with the Canadian community that had allowed her release.

The Hurricane, a feature film starring Denzel Washington and based on the life of Carter, was directed by Canadian filmmaker Norman Jewsion in 1999. The ex-boxer later became a defender of the release of prisoners who, like him, had been declared guilty of crimes they committed. did not commit

He served as executive director of the Toronto Association for the Defense of the Wrongfully Convicted for many years before starting his own company, Innocence International. Carter published a second autobiography in 2011, Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom, at the same time he received a diagnosis of terminal prostate cancer.