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Born. To Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 39, former middleweight boxer whose conviction for murdering three men in a tavern in 1966 became a cause célèbre, and Mae Thelma Carter, 37: their second child, first son; in Paterson, NJ. Name: Raheem Rubin. Carter and his co-defendant John...
That was for a jury to decide, and a year ago a phalanx of literary and show biz personalities joined Dylan in seeking a new trial for Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, a former middleweight boxer convicted of murder who, with his friend John Artis, had been in prison for nine years...
White Dodge. For 31 days the jurors had heard from 76 witnesses the story of the killings and subsequent events. On June 17, 1966, two black men armed with shotgun and pistol shot up a white working-class bar in Paterson, N.J., killing the bartender and two of three customers...
But at the second trial the new Passaic County prosecutor, Burrell Ives Humphreys, and his "Carter task force" had a few surprises in store for the defense. A major stunner: Alfred Bello took the stand and calmly recanted his recantation. Calling it a lie, Bello pointed to Carter and Artis...
Passaic County Prosecutor Burrell Ives Humphreys immediately promised a retrial "in a couple of months." Meanwhile Carter and Artis were released on $20,000 and $15,000 bail respectively. Artis was surprised at the outcome. "From 1966 to now everything has been denied, denied, denied," he said, "and I didn...