A federal judge who freed boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and famously said tobacco companies engaged in a “vast” conspiracy to conceal the dangers of smoking has died in California
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.
Sarokin told the Union-Tribune in 2014 that Carter called him every year on Nov. 7, the anniversary of the ruling. The case resulted in a jury awarding $400,000 to the estate of Rose Cipollone, who had died after decades of smoking.
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