Word: raab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by RAINER FASSBINDER Screenplay by RAINER FASSBINDER and KURT RAAB...
Then in 1974 Fred Hogan, an investigator for the New Jersey public defender's office, and New York Times Reporter Selwyn Raab got Bello and Bradley to say that they had lied in their identification because the police, as Bello put it, had "promised they'd take care of me if I got jammed up again." Last March a hearing was held, and the prosecution introduced for the first time a taped interrogation of Bello that revealed the police had indeed promised to help the two in various criminal cases against them. The defense, which had been assured...
...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 as the two men he had seen leaving the bar. Hogan and Raab, he said, had offered him bribes to recant. Moreover, two former defense witnesses backed up the prosecution's contention that either Carter or his former lawyer tried to cook up a phony alibi; they testified this time that they were not with Carter at the time of the shoot...
...Dylan had been singing for it. Muhammad Ali had given speeches for it. Selwyn Raab, a New York Times reporter, had pushed for it in a series of crusading investigative articles. Finally, last week it came about: the nine-year-old murder conviction of Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 38, and also that of his friend John Artis, 30, was unanimously thrown out by the seven justices of the New Jersey Supreme Court. The "defendants' right to a fair trial was substantially prejudiced," said Justice Mark Sullivan, because the prosecution had failed to disclose evidence about the reliability...
Then in 1973 Raab was asked to help investigate the case. He and others found Bello and Bradley, each of whom said he had lied in his identification. Carter wrote a hard, seething book, The Sixteenth Round (Viking, $11.95), about his life before and in prison. Soon Dylan, Ali and other celebrities joined the push to free Carter (TIME, Dec. 22). In the end, though, it was a legal misstep that led to last week's victory...