TORONTO, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter has resigned from a Canadian prisoner rights group in a rift with its five directors, the CBC reported Saturday.
Carter said he was deeply disappointed the five directors of the Association in the Defense of the Wrongfully Convicted did not object to the court appointment of a former prosecutor whose most famous conviction was later overturned.
Susan MacLean successfully prosecuted Guy Paul Morin in 1992 for the murder of a young Ontario girl, Christine Jessop. But DNA evidence exonerated Morin in 1995.
For 10 years Carter served as the executive director of the association, whose board members merely commented negatively about Maclean's appointment to the Ontario Court of Justice.
When those five board members refused Carter's request they step down over their tepid objections to MacLean, he resigned.
Carter spent 20 years in prison for a triple murder he did not commit, a saga recounted in a movie, three books and a song.
