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The movie Hurricane is a classic example of law and how particular persons in the society are handled in the name of justice. As a whole, the movie was intriguing and interesting. Whether or not it depicted the true story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter is and will remain to be unknown, except by the few persons who know the truth. Carter, as a black man in the 1960’s, was portrayed to have been discriminated against …

…sentence up and he was framed as a murder. The Lieutenant was pushing the downward law as far down as it could go. In effect, he took the law into his own hands, with his own prejudices and declared to defend the white majority from the blacks. Carter had no voice in his convictions; the Lieutenant had the power to deny Carter anything he chose, even life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**