He Was Falsely Accused Of Rape By ‘The Lovely Bones’ Author. New York Will Pay Him $5.5 Million.

Alice Sebold, the author of” The Lovely Bones ,” who was wrongfully convicted of rape, will receive$ 5.5 million in compensation from the state of New York.

Sebold, who detailed the alleged murder in her 1999 autobiography,” Lucky ,” The Daily Wire previously reported, was the subject of Anthony Broadwater’s 16-year prison sentence. More than 20 years after his prison time ended in 1999, Broadwater was released on November 22, 2021.

He filed a$ 50 million lawsuit against New York for unjust imprisonment and the decades he spent on the sex offender registry after his name was finally cleared. According to The Daily Beast, the state has today agreed to pay him$ 5.5 million to resolve the legal dispute.

According to one of Broadwater’s lawyers, his client was” relieved” by the arrangement and referred to the initial conviction as” the embodiment of racism.”

The settlement agreement has been signed by Broadwater’s lawyers and the work of the New York attorney general, but a judge still needs to sign it before it can be finalized, according to The News York Times.

She was a first-year student at Syracuse in May 1981 when she was sexually assaulted, according to Sebold’s account in” Wonderful.” White Sebold asserted that she thought a black man she saw decades ago was her assailant.

” He was grinning as he got closer. I was recognized by him. He had met an encounter on the street, so it was a stroll in the park for him, Sebold wrote. Hey, child, he exclaimed. Don’t you think I recognize you from there?

She wrote that she didn’t respond with anything.

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” I gave him my full attention. She wrote,” I knew his eyes had been the face over me in the hole.

Later, without knowing the identity of her reported attacker, she went to the police.

The man in the street must have been Broadwater, who had allegedly been spotted nearby, according to an agent. According to the Associated Press, Sebold gave Broadwater the surname Gregory Madison in her guide.

After being detained, Sebold was unable to place Broadwater in a law card. Instead, he chose another man’s pictures and declared,” The expression in his eyes told me that if we were alone, and there were no wall between us, then she would call me by title and then kill me.”

Sebold, though, identified Broadwater as her assailant during the hearing. The other piece of proof that supported his sentence came from a professional who claimed that Broadwater had committed the crime based on micro hair analysis. That” type of analysis is today considered bad knowledge by the US Department of Justice ,” the AP noted.

David Hammond, Broadwater’s attorney, would to remark to the Syracuse Post-Standard,” Sprinkle some junk science onto a defective identification, and it’ll be the perfect recipe for wrongful conviction.”

Sebold has expressed regret for convicting the incorrect guy.

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