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...white Dodge as looking like the getaway car, and a search of it turned up a bullet and shotgun shell. Carter and Artis were in the car, but it was not until four months later that they were charged with the murders. That was when two petty thieves-Alfred Bello and Arthur Bradley-claimed that while trying to break into a nearby factory, they had seen Carter and Artis flee the bar. The burglars' testimony was central to the state's case and helped send Carter and Artis to prison for life...
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...
Others objected that a gift for grabbing headlines is often mistaken for leadership. Said Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce Joseph Blatchford, 42: "Historians don't pay tribute to those who are not activist but who are exerting great leadership nonetheless." Westchester County Executive Alfred Del Bello. 42. agreed. "The [quiet] person who knows how to use the complex forces at work today doesn't necessarily get on the TV screen, but certainly is responsible...
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...
When a hearing was held on Bello's and Bradley's recantations, the prosecution introduced a taped interrogation of Bello and other statements that revealed promises made by police to help the two with various criminal cases against them. The defense had been told during cross-examination of the witnesses that there had been no such deals and so argued that the new information should have been provided at the time of the trial. The state supreme court agreed that the material clearly could have "affected the jury's evaluation of the credibility" of the eyewitnesses...