Brown, focused upon inconsistancies in the identification made by Marins, Valentine, and Bellow, producing witnesses who testified Artis and Carter were still at the other bar (the "Nite Spot") at the time of the shooting. The defense, led by criminal defense lawyer Raymond A. The prosecution sought the death penalty during the trial. Bellow - and Bradley, who came forward later - "positively" identified Artis based upon this, Carter and Artis were arrested and charged. Bello would later admit to acting as lookout for another man, Arthur Dexter Bradley, who was robbing a nearby warehouse, and was found to have money from the bar's cash register. Neither Carter nor Artis were positively identified by Bello or Valentine. 32 calibur bullet under the front seat and a 12-gauge shot gun shell in the trunk of the rental - found during a second search five days after the vehicle was impounded, neither matched those which killed the victims. "Clean" lie detector tests of the suspects and witnesses taken at the time and in subsequent years would be pointed to by each side. At this point, the two men were ordered to drive with police to a stationhouse, where they were arrested.ĭiscrepancies in identification and procedure from this day would be argued over for years. Officers pulled Artis and Carter over a second time (Royster had been dropped at home by this time) at approximately 3:00 am. A third neighbor, Ronald Ruggiero, concurred. Meanwhile, two eyewitnesses outside the bar - Alfred Bello and Patricia Valentine (the latter lived above the bar) - described a double-parked getaway car roughly matching the vehicle Carter was driving. Carter and his companions were released from the stop. Why the men were stopped the first time has been disputed - some argue he was one of the few cars driving nearby at the time, while others point to racial profiling.
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Ten minutes later, as Rubin Carter, John Artis, and John Royster (Artis at the wheel) drove home from a nearby bar in a rental car - a white 1966 Dodge Polara with New York license plates - they were stopped by the police for the first time that day. When questioned, both Tanis and Marins told police the shooters had been black men with a shotgun and a pistol. Willie Marins, a third customer, survived the attack, (losing sight in one eye from his head wound). Hazel Tanis would succumb from her wounds a month later in hospital. Bartender James Oliver and a customer, Fred Nauyoks, had been immediately killed - another customer. 32 caliber pistol and a shotgun, and the Paterson police went looking for the suspects. Reports of a triple murder soon spread, commited with a. The Paterson Museum "Fighting for his Name"Īt approximately 2:30 am on June 17 th, 1966, a shooting was reported at the Lafayette Bar and Grill on the corner of East 18 th and Lafayette Streets in Paterson. Neighbors & police stand outside the Lafayette Bar & Grille on July 17th, 1966, the morning after the shooting inside He had a career record of 40 fights - 27 wins, 12 losses, 19 knockouts (KOs), and 1 draw - and was a top-ranked contender for several years until another bell rang, signaling a new, very different round in his life.
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It was during that year when Carter became a professional boxer in the middleweight class. Arrested for a pair of muggings, he was entenced to prison and eventually released in September of 1961. After his discharge, he returned to the U.S. Shortly thereafter, in June of 1956, he was discharged as unfit for service or duty. In just two years, he won the European Light Welterweight Championship with a record of fifty-one wins and five losses. While there, he began his boxing career, joining the U.S. Two weeks later he told a recruiter that he was from Philadelphia to hide his New Jersey criminal record, and joined the United States Army.Ĭompleting basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Carter's first duty station was in West Germany. Sentenced to a New Jersey juvenile reformatory at age twelve, he escaped the detention center in 1954, climbing through a basement window. The fourth child of seven, he acquired a criminal record at age eleven for assaulting a man with a knife.
Early lifeīorn in Clifton, New Jersey, on May 6th, 1937, Carter grew up in Paterson. Ruben “Hurricane” Carter would fight both there and in a very different ring. They say a boxer is in the fight of his life when in the ring.
Standing to his right (photo left) is John Artis. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter exiting after a portion of his trial.
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