Un soir, dans un bar, sa vie bascule. Returning to New Jersey, he was re-arrested and returned to a home for older boys. And Carter and Artis went back to jail. Less than a mile away, John Artis - a black, 19-year-old track star - is ready for home after an evening's dancing at the Nite Spot. D: I guarantee you, in return, I will do everything possible to protect you. Capter: They were stopped waiting for the traffic light. In February 2014, while battling prostate cancer, Carter called for the exoneration of David McCallum, a Brooklyn man who was convicted of kidnapping and murder and had been imprisoned since 1985. He took up boxing but after 21 months was discharged as unfit after committing multiple disciplinary offences. Hazel Tanis, for example, on the night of the shooting, had rambled on and said that one killer was tall and one short, then both were tall, one was light-skinned and one was dark-skinned. If Artis is innocent, as he claims, he must particularly regret turning down the offer from Prosecutor Humphreys before the second trial -- if you pass a lie detector test, you can go free. Carter wasn't interested. Born in nearby Clifton to Bertha and Lloyd Carter, Rubin grew up in Paterson, where his father, a church deacon, worked in a factory while running an ice-delivery business. His wife is out of town and he and Oliver are planning to go to a late night diner for some bacon and eggs. This point is made in the, In a largely circumstantial case such as this, issues of credibility become extremely important. A federal judge overturned both of his trial convictions on the grounds that Carter did not get fair trials. Sam Chaiton : Two juries found him guilty, Les. The real Rubin Carter and the real Lafayette Grill murder case are nothing like the movie. She thought her friend, bar owner Betty Panagia, would be behind the counter tonight, and she's dropped by to hand in a deposit for a union convention in Atlantic City. The prison doctor diagnosed a detached retina, which Carter put down to an old boxing injury. She stands and watches two black men leave the bar. (It should be noted here, that Bello was not aware that his conversation with DeSimone had been taped. Life imprisonment awaited Carter and Artis. Lesra : Two white juries. The officer recognises Carter and greets him, then asks to see Artis' licence. Byrne. Cal Deal, a reporter for the Herald-News, explained that Larner questioned Bello and Bradley carefully. Man's so greedy if he put the sun up there he'd be charging $25 a day." Mini Bio (1) Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was boxing's most feared middleweight contender in the early 1960s. An officer arrives to administer a lie-detector test and looks both men in the eye as he tells them that if they lie, he'll ensure they get the electric chair. So I escaped. A thin, frightened young woman, Patty Graham Valentine, who lives in the apartment directly above, hovers over Tanis, choking back hysterical sobs. Carter promptly attacked the preacher - a man who was far older than him. But the prosecution never found a witness who could testify that Carter himself was angry about the killing. Everything the public knows about the fateful night and the trials that followed comes from Rubin Carter or his supporters. Sgt. Several blocks behind them (that is, from the direction they had been traveling) was the apartment of Eddie Rawls. The New JerseySupreme Court ruled that the existence of the tape was unfairly hidden from the defense. Bello was led carefully through his testimony, and he had to explain to the court how often he'd lied and why. A forged time card, altering the time of the murders -- and thus affecting Carter's alibi -- is crucial to the plot of the movie. Part of him wanted to stay, to repay the debts the Canadians had incurred when they framed their lives around getting him released from prison. At the film's premiere, the Canadians and Carter sat in separate rows and never spoke to one another. His prison records show that he avoided work details and received citations for disobeying orders, but also make it clear that he was in the general lock up and not kept, as he claims today, in solitary confinement. A huge, bald black man stared out at him from the cover, his eyes following Martin around the room. Carter was twice denied parole because of his hostility and aggression. As for the defense, some observers of the case have criticized the police for a lax investigation. The killer with the pistol then moves two stools down and shoots Marins in the left temple. The Lafayette Bar and Grill interior in June 1966. Rubin Carter was born on May 6, 1937, in Clifton, New Jersey. But to the Canadians, anyone was more credible than a white policeman. Artis and Carter's lives had been intertwined for 19 years. he moved to Toronto, Ontario and married Lisa Peters. Carter escaped before his six-year term was up and in 1954 he joined the Army, where he served in a segregated corps and began training as a boxer. He looks at Carter and Artis standing next to each other. Login. Both Valentine and Bello called the police and Det. In real life, the murders were always pegged at 2:30. eyewitness identification of Carter and Artis. D: Well, that I can't promise, In other words, I'm takin' this a step at a time. Artis had nothing to do with attempts to bribe Bello and Bradley into recanting their testimony. The producers of The Hurricane have not announced plans for a sequel. (, Humphreys wanted to confront Carter with all of the hated that spilled over in the pages of his autobiography. Victory would see him take the world title. For example, Carter's supporters have heaped scorn on Bello's claim that he ran away from Carter and Artis. Eventually, both Bello and Bradley agreed to file affidavits recanting their story. Photograph: Getty Images, Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, US boxer wrongly convicted of murder, dies at 76, Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter's life story is a warning to us about racism and revenge. Carter is 5'7", solidly built and wore a goatee. ), They watched as the prosecutor carefully led Carter and Artis over the inconsistencies of their alibis -- which contradicted each other and their own testimony in front of the grand jury. What Rubin was, by age 14, was a prisoner. Some of them are his neighbors. The white car passes the short, plump man. Lawless's phone rings. But he hadn't learned his lesson, because, once at Jamesburg State Home for Boys, he tried to defend, "There's no doubt Carter was framed," Bradley told Selwyn Raab of. Capter looks at DeChellis. They are now separated and Carter has moved on to another relationship. For the second trial, Artis had the option of being tried separately, but he and his lawyer went along with Carter's defense strategy. "I just kept getting into trouble," Carter admitted, "and they kept adding time. DeSimone also said that the lie-detector tests the police administered to Carter, Artis, and Eddie Rawls indicated that they had not participated in the crime, but that the three had suspicions of who might have done it. The movie ends with the words, "the real killers were never caught, nor were they pursued.". This evidence was also put forward by the Canadians and is discussed at length in their book. This time, he tried to float the story that he was inside the bar when the shooting broke out, hiding behind Hazel Tanis. He had been goaded about his sexuality by Benny Paret in the build-up to a previous fight. (Valentine only claimed to see the "backs of their necks" as they got into their car.) This movie bills itself as being about hope and redemption. He . Firstly, the racial revenge theory; a prosecutor during the trial had said something to the effect of "this is what black people do". Then the prosecution turned the tables on the defense with their own charges of bribery: At the second trial, the prosecutors contended, Bello had recanted his original testimony because the defense had bribed him. The Freeing of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter'' (St. Martin's Griffin, paper, $14.95), by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton . His son, Raheem, hasn't seen him in years. She's tired, she's been on her feet all evening, serving at a graduation banquet at the country club where she works. (, In his autobiography, Carter describes how, for the first month at Trenton State Prison, he stayed in his cell. Bello said, "That's the car. He claimed the man was a pedophile who had been attempting to molest one of his friends. He didn't claim to see as much as Bello. Martin found Carter's autobiography at a used book sale and wrote him a letter, thus setting off a chain of events that led the Canadians to take on Carter's case and eventually help him win his release. It's early in the morning on June 17, 1966. In 1994, after Carter had moved in and out of the Canadians' commune several times, he left for good and hasn't looked back. Just a judge, who would read the 90-page submission that contained Carter's last shot at freedom, and decide if the defendants received a fair trial. He has the ability, it seems, to project absolute sincerity. When he sits up, Capter recognizes him. "How could an overweight, high-heeled Bello elude a world-class professional athlete and a former high school track star?" Carter liked that he worked with ordinary people, bound together by a feeling that something was wrong. He won two European light-welterweight championships and in 1956 returned to Paterson with the intention of becoming a professional boxer. Une fusillade clate et Rubin Carter se retrouve tort accuse d'un triple meurtre. The Canadians (a group of nine people who lived and worked together in a commune-type setting; all were involved in Carter's case, but the three principally involved were Sam Chaiton, Terry Swinton, and Lisa Peters) did not find evidence that proves Carter is innocent or that Carter was framed, and neither has anybody else. Looking around for a lift, Artis sees Carter, a regular he met a couple of weeks before. On 20 April 2014, at the age of 76, Rubin Carter was gone. But Lipton knew the importance of having someone as well respected as Ali on board. Both were wary. In 1999 Carter was played by Denzel Washington in a film, Hurricane, directed by the Canadian Norman Jewison. Artis is baffled; Carter suspicious. Another friend, Thom Kidrin, wrote songs about him and brought him food and visited him for years when everyone else had deserted him. At the 1976 trial, Fred Hogan was called as a defense witnessMr. Hogan is exposed. The third customer is Hazel Tanis, 51. For actual identification of Carter and Artis, therefore, the prosecution had to rely on Bello and Bradley. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis, Bob Dylan's single of Hurricane, 1975. No, make that three black men. They were escorted back to the Lafayette, where both Patty Valentine and Al Bello were asked to look at the car. People who are not bitter, of course, do not sue for wrongful prosecution. He felt something wasn't right; his former sparring partner didn't seem to have been given a fair trial. Inside the prison walls, Carter had long since recognized his need to resign himself to the reality of his situation. Seven years had passed since the first trial and with it the deadline for perjury charges. Now if I get the truth from you, an' not the truth to make me happy, what really is the truth, you follow me? He said the New Jersey police called Carter and Artis "niggers" and "Muslims." The man is breathless and excited and talking volubly, repeating what he already told the policemen out on the sidewalk. Carter was at a nightclub just four blocks from the Lafayette around the time of the shootings, and everyone agreed that the job didn't take long, probably no more than a minute. Carter became an international symbol of racial injustice after his wrongful murder. What he got was a warm smile, the two sharing their experiences in prison. Another aspect of Carter's personality was that he saw himself as a protector and avenger. Boxer twice convicted of triple-murder. The movie was largely based on Carter's 1974 autobiography and Chaiton and Swinton's 1991 book, which was re-released in late 1999. He packed his Jeep with his possessions and, with $125 in his back pocket, left. I won't be dogmatic and say there is. When the movie came out, Raheem was in jail, awaiting trial for assaulting his girlfriend, and, he claimed to reporters, waiting for his father to post his bail. His record was 17-4 when, in 1963, he surprised welterweight champion Emile Griffith with a first-round knockout. With this necessary piece of information captured on audiotape, Carter and Artis were arrested. He talks openly in his autobiography, The 16th Round, of his hatred for authority and his desire to wreak bloody vengeance: I wanted to see this insidious juvenile labor system demolished from stem to stern and I wanted to see it happen out of pure hatred and vengeance at atonement for the crimes committed against me, and other just like me I wanted to be the Administrator of Justice, the Revealer of Truth, the Inflicter of All Retribution. Lesra Martin and the Canadians led by Lisa Peters, who continually fought for him through the legal system when . The real Rubin Carter and the real Lafayette Grill murder case are nothing like the movie. Habeas corpus. Neither the prosecution nor the defense had much use for him, as he refused to take a lie detector test and had alcohol and drug problems. Fred Hogan was lying in bed in his barracks in Germany, reading clippings sent by his father about his old friend Rubin. Carter's father stopped. Life in prison. Now, in 1975, it was full of people fighting for his freedom. Carter liked to wear flashy colored vests and berets and tailored suits and to tool around town in his custom Cadillac. Eventually, the man put the book down and Martin, as quickly as he could, grabbed it. Oliver explains that he's covering for his girlfriend Betty because she's been working so hard lately. A prison within a prison. Carter was in pain and, if it wasn't treated, it would end the boxing career he intended to resume on his release. The fact is that Carter was not exonerated for the Lafayette Grill murders, as Carter claims. It was the Bello tape recording that brought the prosecution to grief. Carter's explanation for the accusation was that he'd thought Kelley was blackmailing him for money. So did the trucker. Police had to escort the handcuffed Conforti through a gauntlet of angry onlookers to a police car. The participation of Raab and Levinson also became suspect. Considering the circumstances of the murders, however, it seems impossible that the Mob could have arranged to shoot people and arranged for witnesses to see a car that looked like Carter's zoom off, at the same time Carter was driving around five blocks away. He did have a brush with the law at age 11 -- his own father turned him in to the police because of his acts of theft and vandalism. As well, there are revelations about Rubin Carter himself, his violent past and his credibility, that were nowhere to be seen in the movie. If you just tell us it was Carter, you can go home.". Hogan told him he had a 'piece' of Rubin Carter's autobiography and that Bello could get a 'piece' if he recanted. In 1966, at the height of his boxing career, Carter was twice wrongfully convicted of a triple murder and imprisoned for nearly two decades. Carter said he only linked up with Artis after midnight. She recognises the country club uniform she's wearing. There were marches and demonstrations, led by Muhammad Ali and other celebrities. In 2000, James S. Hirsch published a new authorized biography, Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2011, and produced another biography, Eye of the Hurricane, with a foreword by Nelson Mandela. The prosecution claimed Carter was unchanged; a violent man who would always be a danger to the public. Sgts. Bello said that Hogan offered him money if he would recant. In late 1974, Bello and Bradley both separately recanted their testimony, revealing that they had lied in order to receive sympathetic treatment from the police. Psychology, as Russian novelist Dostoevsky pointed out in a murder trial scene in The Brothers Karamazov, is a two-edged sword. Right then, and right here, because if you don't kill me, I will kill you.". 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