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Freeing Maurice
Carter, (no relation) was one of Rubin Carter's goals
'Hurricane' Carter quits
rights group he founded
Noted activist resigns after fight over appointment of provincial
judge
FROM CANADIAN PRESS, Aug. 13,
2004
Former boxer Rubin
(Hurricane) Carter resigned today from an organization that
fights for the wrongly convicted because some of its directors
refuse to oppose the appointment of an Ontario judge.
Carter, the group's executive
director, said the position of his five colleagues has undermined
the integrity of the organization, the Association in the Defence
of the Wrongly Convicted.
"I have to let this baby
go," Carter told journalists today.
"I will no longer engage
in a power struggle with ADWC's board of directors," he
added.
"Which will only mean
that innocent people behind bars will only languish there for
want of an advocate."
The judge in question is Susan MacLean of the Ontario
Court of Justice.
Before her appointment to the
bench, MacLean was a member of the prosecution in the notorious
miscarriage of justice involving Guy Paul Morin, who was twice
convicted in the murder of his nine-year-old neighbour Christine
Jessop of Queensville, Ont.
Carter himself spent two decades
behind bars for a triple murder in New Jersey although he was
innocent of the crime.
He founded the Toronto-based
association, which has garnered international respect for its
work on behalf of the wrongly convicted, in 1993.
He said he would return to
the organization if the five unnamed directors, who are also
lawyers, leave the board.
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- Stephen Williams:
Canadian writer subject to Stasi-like treatment by Canadian police
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wells: Faulty eye-witness
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- Wrongfully convicted in Canada
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The Terrible Story behind the Atif Rafay and
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