Attorney Myron Beldock '50 was featured in a New York Times profile titled "A Foe of Injustice and Champion of Lost Causes" (9/21/04). According to the Times article: "He made news most recently by persuading a federal judge this month to overturn a jury verdict in the case of Gidone Busch, a Hasidic man shot to death in a 1999 confrontation with the police. Mr. Busch's family, who sued the city for damages and lost, can get a new trial."
Beldock's most famous case was, according to the article, "a 13-year effort that won freedom for the former middleweight boxer Rubin Carter, who is known as Hurricane, after Mr. Carter was found guilty of killing three people in a Paterson, N.J., tavern and imprisoned for nearly 19 years. As the principal lawyer for Mr. Carter, whose case inspired a Bob Dylan song and a Denzel Washington movie, Mr. Beldock became something of a hero to some for stubborn stick-to-itiveness tinged with idealism."
