ory that was more consistent with his first police discussion, and one that would exonerate Carter and Artis.Rubin Carter was telling his story in a book, The 16th Round. This book received significant attention. Even Bob Dylan was intrigued by it and agreed to meet with Carter. He left the meeting convinced that Carter was innocent and told the world what he thought in his song, "Hurricane." The song was released in 1974 and one of the verses castigated Bello and Bradley: Now all the criminals in their coats and tiesAre free to drink martinis and watch the sun riseWhile Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten foot cellAn innocent man in a living hell.Just prior to the publishing of The 16th Round, Bello and Bradley recanted their testimony. They told a New York Times reporter that the Paterson police had pressured them into lying. Based on this development, lawyers for Carter and Artis fliled a motion Slover 4for a new trial. It took the New Jersey Supreme Court to overturn the convictions and order a new trial to begin on October 12, 1976.Before the beginning of the second trial, the prosecution was concerned about Bello’s testimony, so he was asked to take a polygraph test. He agreed, but the results concluded that Bello was inside the bar at the time of the shootings. This was not what the prosecutors wanted to hear. It contradicted his previous testimony of being outside the bar. So, the prosecution’s lead investigator pressured the professor that administered the polygraph to summarize his results, but in the investigator’s words. The prosecutors used the summary of the polygraph to get Bello to change his testimony back to his original lie. They did this by lying to Bello about the results of it. They also only gave the defense attorneys only the summary instead of the entire polygraph test results. So, after a second trial, Carter and Artis were once again found guilty of first-degree murder. Their lif...
