Nov 30, 2021, 04:18pm
After serious issues were raised with his prosecution, Anthony Broadwater's conviction for rape in 1981 was overturned last week.
The author spoke at BookExpo America in New York. Tina Fineberg is pictured.
The Associated Press.
She apologized in a statement to The Associated Press and later posted on Medium, saying she will be sorry for what she did.
The New York Times reported that Broadwater was exonerating by a New York state judge last week for the 1981 rape that he had been accused of.
He spent 16 years in prison for crime before being released in 1998, but he still protested his innocence and had to register as a sex predator.
Five. Broadwater was denied parole many times because he wouldn't admit to the crime, according to his attorneys.
The key background.
Broadwater had expressed his hope for an apology from her, saying that she was wrong. When she was a freshman at Syracuse University, she saw Broadwater on the street months after her assault and was reminded of her attacker. She reported him to the police, but they couldn't identify him in a lineup. Broadwater was convicted based on two pieces of evidence, one of which was junk science. In her 1999 memoir Lucky, she wrote that when she was told she had picked the wrong man from the lineup, she said the two looked almost identical. Her 2002 bestselling novel The Lovely Bones dealt with sexual assault and was adapted into a movie starring Saoirse Ronan.
Lucky was in the process of being adapted for the big screen when Timothy Mucciante, an executive producer, raised concerns about the story: "not about the story that Alice told about her assault, which was tragic." Mucciante hired a private investigator who looked into the case and gathered evidence that he gave to Broadwater's lawyer. The film adaptation was scrapped after his exoneration.
The quote is crucial.
Broadwater said that the people who allowed him to grace their homes and dinners were the ones who didn't get past 10. That is traumatic to me.
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