Jeff Beach spent 15 years in print journalism, where he was honored with seven statewide and regional journalism awards, before becoming the public information officer for the NJOPD in 1999, where he met and became colleagues and friends with Fred Hogan. Since 2004, he has been a public information officer, policy advisor and emergency management coordinator for the New Jersey Department of Agriculture. He served in 2012 as the national President for the Communications Officers of State Departments of Agriculture (COSDA). He is the father of two daughters and is active in efforts to reverse public bias against pit bulls.
Fred W. Hogan, a former policeman who switched careers early to be-come an investigator for the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (NJOPD), put his investigative skills to work paving the way for the exoneration of wrongfully convicted boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and his co-defendant John Artis in the 1966 triple murder at the Lafayette Bar and Grille in Paterson, N.J. The U.S. Army veteran retired after 40 years with the NJOPD, having filled roles as both an investigator and Statewide Drug Court Coordinator. He now lives in Lakewood, N.J. and serves as the President of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey and is a past president of the substance-abuse counseling group New Jersey Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers. He has two sons and seven grandchildren, and devotes much of his time to addiction-counseling efforts and promoting military veterans’ issues.
Justice on the Ropes
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Fred W. Hogan, John Artis and The Wrongful Conviction Movement
by Jeff Beach and Fred W. Hogan

Justice on the Ropes
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Fred W. Hogan, John Artis and The Wrongful Conviction Movement
by Jeff Beach and Fred W. Hogan
Published May 11, 2018
128 Pages
Genre: TRUE CRIME / General