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.
SAN DIEGO — H. Lee Sarokin, the 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, has died in California, news outlets reported Friday. He was 94. Sarokin died Tuesday in La Jolla, a seaside community in San Diego where he and his wife lived in retirement, The San Diego Union-Tribune