H. Lee Sarokin, the federal judge who freed boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and in a landmark case famously said tobacco companies engaged in a “vast” conspiracy to conceal the dangers of smoking, has died.
FILE - U.S. District Judge H. Lee Sarokin prepares to testify on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 1994, before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was to hold hearings on his nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Sarokin, a federal judge who freed boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and in a landmark case famously said tobacco companies engaged in a “vast” conspiracy to conceal the dangers of smoking, died Tuesday, June 20, 2023, in California, news outlets reported. He was 94. H.
In 1985, Sarokin threw out the convictions of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John Artis, two Black men who were wrongfully convicted of killing three white men. Sarokin ruled that their prosecution was based “upon an appeal to racism rather than reason, concealment rather than disclosure.”Carter's innocence had been championed by celebrities and was the basis of a 1975 song by Bob Dylan.
In 1988, Sarokin also presided over a landmark liability case against tobacco companies. Sarokin’s pre-trial rulings opened the way for corporate records to be submitted as evidence. When lawyers for the company asked Sarokin to dismiss the case in their favor, he refused, saying famously that evidence showed the tobacco industry engaged in a conspiracy “vast in its scope, devious in its purpose and devastating in its results.
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