![]() ![]() Prosecutors put Broadwater on trial anyway. An officer said the man in the street must have been Broadwater, who had supposedly been seen in the area.Īfter Broadwater was arrested, Sebold failed to identify him in a police lineup, picking a different man as her attacker because she was frightened of “the expression in his eyes”. ![]() In 1999, Sebold wrote in Lucky of being raped and then spotting a Black man in the street several months later who she believed was her attacker. Melissa Swartz, an attorney for Broadwater, said he had no comment. “And certainly not to forever, and irreparably, alter a young man’s life by the very crime that had altered mine.” ![]() ![]() “My goal in 1982 was justice – not to perpetuate injustice,” she said. In a statement released to the Associated Press, Sebold, the author of the novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, said that as a “traumatized 18-year-old rape victim” she chose to put her faith in the US legal system. His conviction was overturned on 22 November after prosecutors re-examined the case and determined there were serious flaws in his arrest and trial. Anthony Broadwater, 61, was convicted in 1982 of raping Sebold when she was a student at Syracuse University. ![]()
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