People Who Were Incarcerated For Crimes They Didn’t Commit

He Became A Motivational Speaker & Earned Two Doctorates

Witnesses didn’t identify Carter as one of the killers after he was first arrested. Carter’s second conviction was overturned in 1985. He spent 20 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Afterwards, he moved to Toronto, Ontario, and became a Canadian citizen. He led the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) from 1993 until 2005. He was wrongly arrested again in 1996 for a drug crime that he didn’t commit. Carter a good deal of his time as a motivational speaker, and earned two honorary Doctorates of Law — one from York University in Canada and one from Griffith University in Australia.