Anthony Broadwater, who spent 16 years in prison, was cleared Monday by a judge of raping Sebold, an assault she wrote about in her 1999 memoir, “Lucky.”
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.
Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick told state Supreme Court Justice Gordon Cuffy at the court hearing that Broadwater’s prosecution was an injustice,“I’m not going to sully this proceeding by saying, ‘I’m sorry.’ That doesn’t cut it,” Fitzpatrick said. “This should never have happened.”
After Broadwater was arrested, though, Sebold failed to identify him in a police lineup, picking a different man as her attacker because"the expression in his eyes told me that if we were alone, if there were no wall between us, he would call me by name and then kill me.” Even after he married a woman who believed in his innocence, Broadwater never wanted to have children.
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