The man who was wrongly convicted of raping Alice when she was a college student received an apology from the author.
She apologized to Anthony Broadwater Jr. and that she deeply regrets what she had done.
She apologized for the fact that the life you could have led was taken from you, and she knows that no apology can change what happened to you.
Broadwater's conviction for first-degree rape and other charges related to the 1981 assault of a woman was overturned last week by a New York state judge.
The Onondaga County district attorney agreed with the argument that he had been convicted on insufficient and now-discredited forms of evidence.
Fitzpatrick told the court that he was not going to sully the proceedings by saying he was sorry. That doesn't cut it. This should not have happened.
Broadwater was denied parole many times because he refused to admit to the crime.
Broadwater told the Associated Press that he had been crying tears of joy and relief after he was removed from the sex offenders registry. The cold can't keep me warm.
She was attacked while walking through a tunnel while she was a student at Syracuse University.
She passed a man on the street and called the police because she thought he was her attacker.
He smiled as he approached. He recognized me. She wrote in Lucky that he had met an acquaintance on the street while walking in the park. "Hey, girl," he said. I don't know if I know you from somewhere.
I looked at him. His face was over me in the tunnel.
Broadwater was arrested when a police officer suggested he had been seen in the area where she said she had seen the man.
Broadwater was not picked out of a police lineup and instead was selected by another black man.
In court, she testified that Broadwater had raped her because prosecutors lied to her that a friend of Broadwater was the man she picked out of the lineup.
The district attorney noted in court last week that witness identifications of strangers can be unreliable.
Broadwater was convicted of using "junk science" in his hair analysis.
In her apology on Tuesday, she blamed the wrongful conviction on a flawed legal system in which she had put her faith.
She wrote that it had taken her eight days to comprehend how this could have happened. I will struggle with the role that I played in the system that sent an innocent man to jail. I will wonder if my rapist will go on to rape other women, and if he will ever serve the time in prison that Mr. Broadwater did.
Broadwater's exoneration may not have happened if it wasn't for a planned film adaptation of Lucky, which detailed the assault and the post-traumatic stress disorder that resulted from it.
The project was abandoned by Timothy Mucciante when he noticed discrepancies between the memoir and the script.
The second part of Alice's book about the trial didn't hang together, and that's when I started having some doubts.
Mucciante hired a private investigator to reexamine the case, who brought Broadwater's plight to the attention of a defense attorney.
Variety reported Tuesday that the film adaptation of You had been scrapped.
Broadwater told the New York Times that his life had been ruined by his wrongful conviction, even though he was released from prison in 1999.
He said that he faced stigma from loved ones and was unable to find a job due to his sex conviction.
A member of his defense team did not respond to the request for comment.
