![]() ![]() Last week, a state court overturned Broadwater’s wrongful conviction, and he was exonerated. The producer dropped out of the production over his doubts about Broadwater’s guilt and hired a private investigator, who brought on a defense team to represent Broadwater. Prior to the latest development in the case, Lucky was in the process of being filmed when an executive producer began to scrutinize the flaws in the original trial. She also wrote about her fears that the defense would perceive her as “a panicked white girl who saw a Black man on the street” and was “accusing the wrong man.” For example, she says she identified a different man from a police lineup and that a composite sketch didn’t resemble Broadwater. In Lucky, Sebold writes about the inconsistencies in her rape case. Sebold would later explore themes of sexual assault in her best-selling 2002 novel, The Lovely Bones. The assault and ensuing trauma went on to become the subject matter of Sebold’s 1999 debut memoir, Lucky. At her 1982 trial, Sebold identified Broadwater - who at the time was 20 years old and on leave from the Marine Corps - as her attacker in court. Photo: Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty ImagesĪuthor Alice Sebold has issued a public apology to Anthony Broadwater, the man who was wrongly convicted of raping her in 1981, when she was a freshman at Syracuse University. ![]()
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