Rubin Carter faced corrupt politics and racism for most of his life. When Rubin was a young boy, he and his friends were confronted by an older white man who was acting in a suspicious manor. The boys were frightened, therefore, one of them picked up a bottle and hit the man in the head. They all ran, but Rubin could not get away. This was his first encounter with Officer Della Pesca. Carter was questioned about what happened, and eventually acussed of trying to steal the man's watch. Rubin was helpless because Della Pesca was convinced of his guilt because Carter was an African American. Because of Officer Della Pesca's racism and corrupt ways Rubin had to spend his childhood in jail. Della Pesca was so ruthless that he did not even care that

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Lezra and his friends moved to New Jersey in order to work soley on the case. They went around and interviewed people and began to solve the case all by themselves. They realized that the car Rubin was in was a different car than the vehicle that the murderers were in. Also they found old records and things that just simply were not presented in the original case. They realized that the whole case was fixed. When they showed Rubin a card with writing from the police call Rubin knew right away that the handwriting was Officer Della Pesca's. When he saw the handwriting Rubin knew that he had served meaningless years in jail. When Rubin went back to court he was proven not guilty. He had wasted half of his life due to the evilness of one man.

Officer Della Pesca then went to work on how he was going to fix this case. He called in the witness of the crime and bribed him to go on tape and say that Rubin Carter committed the crime. He also made a fake sheet showing what time the police call was made. He altered the sheet so Rubin was not at the party at the time of the police call. When they went to court Rubin was charged with three murders and was sentenced to life in jail. The jury was all white. They never found the gun used in the murders and they still charged him with the murders.

When the movie is over, one might have an angry feeling. Because of his color Rubin Carter had to spend half of his life without freedom. He was hated by Della Pesca because he was an African American, but it is a shame because such a mean man as Della Pesca had the power to ruin Rubin's life. This illustrates the racist and corruption of our government. Government is not normally like this, but if someone is as corrupt as Della Pesca then it is easy for something like that to happen. Rubin's case would not have had the same outcome if it had happened in the 1990's, but at the time of this case corruption was frequent and ma

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