Factoid: They had to release Rubin Hurricane Carter because they found out he was innocent.
Fact: He was released because of procedural errors during his trial.
Fact or Factoid? Carter was innocent. Only Carter knew for sure. There are those who point both ways for his guilt or innocence. Any evidence can be slanted with clever verbiage. Carter sounds pretty guilty in some of the stuff I have read. But I have also read probability questions and studies that would make you scratch your head with wonder at some of the things you would swear from the evidence presented were almost certainties, but which have amazingly small chances of being true. At least the chances are small enough that you would be quite hesitant on such evidence alone to send someone to the death chamber. I will try to find some of those studies. With a little tweaking we might even be able to retool them for boxing use.
Fact: He was released because of procedural errors during his trial.
Fact or Factoid? Carter was innocent. Only Carter knew for sure. There are those who point both ways for his guilt or innocence. Any evidence can be slanted with clever verbiage. Carter sounds pretty guilty in some of the stuff I have read. But I have also read probability questions and studies that would make you scratch your head with wonder at some of the things you would swear from the evidence presented were almost certainties, but which have amazingly small chances of being true. At least the chances are small enough that you would be quite hesitant on such evidence alone to send someone to the death chamber. I will try to find some of those studies. With a little tweaking we might even be able to retool them for boxing use.
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