Sebold went on from there, noting that Broadwater became “another young Black man brutalized by our flawed legal system.” Of the many things I wish for you, I hope most of all that you and your family will be granted the time and privacy to heal.” I am sorry most of all for the fact that the life you could have led was unjustly robbed from you, and I know that no apology can change what happened to you and never will. “First, I want to say that I am truly sorry to Anthony Broadwater and I deeply regret what you have been through. In her message about Broadwater’s exoneration, Sebold wrote frankly, apologizing to the man whose life was lost to the injustices of our justice system: Related: Rich Kid Pleads Guilty To Rape Of Four Teenage Girls And Gets ZERO Jail Time Last week, a New York State Supreme Court Justice completely exonerated the now-61-year-old man of the crime, confirming it was instead committed by someone else who has never been identified. The Lovely Bones author, who opened up about her horrific sexual assault in the book Lucky, published her first public statement about the exoneration of Anthony Broadwater in a new message posted to Medium on Tuesday morning.īroadwater was convicted of the rape back in 1982, and eventually served 16 years in prison before being released in 1998, whereafter he was placed on New York’s sex offender registry. She was accusing the wrong man.Alice Sebold has apologized to the man who was wrongfully convicted of raping her in 1981, when she was a student at Syracuse University. He spoke familiarly to her and in her mind she connected this to her rape. She wrote that she realized the defense would be that: “A panicked white girl saw a black man on the street. Sebold wrote in “Lucky” that when she was informed that she’d picked someone other than the man she’d previously identified as her rapist, she said the two men looked “almost identical.” A messages seeking comment was left with its new executive producer, Jonathan Bronfman of Toronto-based JoBro Productions. The fate of the film adaptation of “Lucky” was unclear in light of Broadwater’s exoneration.
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Hammond and Swartz credited Fitzpatrick for taking a personal interest in the case and understanding that scientific advances have cast doubt on the use of hair analysis, the only type of forensic evidence that was produced at Broadwater’s trial to link him to Sebold’s rape. Mucciante said that after dropping out of the project earlier this year he hired a private investigator, who put him in touch with Hammond, of Syracuse-based CDH Law, who brought in fellow defense lawyer Melissa Swartz, of Cambareri & Brenneck. “I started poking around and trying to figure out what really happened here,” Mucciante told the AP on Tuesday. Tim Mucciante, who has a production company called Red Badge Films, had signed on as executive producer of the adaptation but became skeptical of Broadwater’s guilt when the first draft of the script came out because it differed so much from the book. “Lucky” was also in the process of being filmed, and it was thanks to the film project itself that Broadwater’s conviction was overturned after four decades.
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“The Lovely Bones,” about the rape and murder of a teenage girl, won the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction in 2003 and was made into a movie starring Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon and Stanley Tucci. In addition to “Lucky,” Sebold is the author of the novels “The Lovely Bones” and “The Almost Moon.” Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick told state Supreme Court Justice Gordon Cuffy at the court hearing that Broadwater’s prosecution was an injustice, The Post-Standard of Syracuse reported. “I’m so elated, the cold can’t even keep me cold.” “I’ve been crying tears of joy and relief the last couple of days,” Broadwater, 61, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. (AP) – A rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author Alice Sebold has been overturned because of what authorities determined were serious flaws with the 1982 prosecution and concerns the wrong man had been sent to jail.Īnthony Broadwater, who spent 16 years in prison, was cleared Monday by a judge of raping Sebold when she was a student at Syracuse University, an assault she wrote about in her 1999 memoir, “Lucky.”īroadwater shook with emotion, sobbing as his head fell into his hands, as the judge in Syracuse vacated his conviction at the request of prosecutors. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.
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