{"id":1059533,"date":"2021-11-27T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1059533"},"modified":"2021-11-27T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T17:14:14","slug":"man-wrongfully-convicted-of-raping-the-lovely-bones-author-has-finally-been-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-wrongfully-convicted-of-raping-the-lovely-bones-author-has-finally-been-cleared\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Wrongfully Convicted Of Raping \u2018The Lovely Bones\u2019 Author Has Finally Been Cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-wrongfully-convicted-of-raping-the-lovely-bones-author-has-finally-been-cleared%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1059533&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A man who spent 16 years in prison for a rape based on a faulty identification and junk science has finally been cleared.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Broadwater was convicted of the 1981 rape of award-winning author Alice Sebold, who detailed the alleged crime in her 1999 memoir, \u201cLucky.\u201d Sebold had written that she was a first-year student at Syracuse in May 1981 when she was raped. Sebold, who is white, claimed she saw a black man months later and believed he was her attacker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was smiling as he approached. He recognized me. It was a stroll in the park to him; he had met an acquaintance on the street,\u201d Sebold wrote. \u201c\u2018Hey, girl,\u2019 he said. \u2018Don\u2019t I know you from somewhere?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said she said nothing in return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI looked directly at him. Knew his face had been the face over me in the tunnel,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>She later went to the police, not knowing her alleged attacker\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn officer suggested the man in the street must have been Broadwater, who had supposedly been seen in the area. Sebold gave Broadwater the pseudonym Gregory Madison in her book,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/23\/alice-sebold-1981-rape-conviction-overturned\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sebold was unable to identify Broadwater in a police lineup after he was arrested, instead picking the photo of a different man and claiming, \u201cthe expression in his eyes told me that if we were alone, if there were no wall between us, he would call me by name and then kill me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the trial, however, Sebold identified Broadwater as her attacker. The other piece of evidence that led to his conviction came from an expert who said microscopic hair analysis determined Broadwater had committed the crime. As the AP noted, that \u201ctype of analysis is now considered junk science by the US Department of Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Broadwater\u2019s attorney, David Hammond, would later tell the Post-Standard of Syracuse: \u201cSprinkle some junk science onto a faulty identification, and it\u2019s the perfect recipe for a wrongful conviction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Broadwater\u2019s 16-year prison term ended in 1999, but he was ordered to register as a sex offender. Since then, he\u2019s worked as a trash collector and handyman, though he told the AP that the wrongful conviction always hung over his head and kept him from better jobs. It also strained his relationship with family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>When he married a woman who believed he was innocent, he refused to have kids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a big argument sometimes about kids, and I told her I could never, ever allow kids to come into this world with a stigma on my back,\u201d Broadwater told the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Broadwater\u2019s conviction was finally overturned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never, ever, ever thought I would see the day that I would be exonerated,\u201d Broadwater reportedly said after his conviction was overturned.<\/p>\n<p>William Fitzpatrick, the Onondaga county district attorney, said in court that Broadwater\u2019s original conviction \u201cshould never have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to sully this proceeding by saying, \u2018I\u2019m sorry.\u2019 That doesn\u2019t cut it,\u201d Fitzpatrick reportedly said. \u201cThis should never have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who spent 16 years in prison for a rape based on a faulty identification and junk science has finally been cleared.Anthony Broadwater was convicted of the 1981 rape of award-winning author Alice Sebold, who detailed the alleged crime in her 1999 memoir, \u201cLucky.\u201d Sebold had written that she was a first-year student at Syracuse in May 1981 when she was raped. Sebold, who is white, claimed she saw a black man months later and believed he was her attacker.\u201cHe was smiling as he approached. He recognized me. It was a stroll in the park to him; he had met an acquaintance on the street,\u201d Sebold wrote. \u201c\u2018Hey, girl,\u2019 he said. \u2018Don\u2019t I know you from somewhere?\u2019\u201dShe said she said nothing in return.\u201cI looked directly at him. Knew his face had been the face over me in the tunnel,\u201d she wrote.She later went to the police, not knowing her alleged attacker\u2019s name.\u201cAn officer suggested the man in the street must have been Broadwater, who had supposedly been seen in the area. Sebold gave Broadwater the pseudonym Gregory Madison in her book,\u201d the Associated Press reported.Sebold was unable to identify Broadwater in a police lineup after he was arrested, instead picking the photo of a different man and claiming, \u201cthe expression in his eyes told me that if we were alone, if there were no wall between us, he would call me by name and then kill me.\u201dDuring the trial, however, Sebold identified Broadwater as her attacker. The other piece of evidence that led to his conviction came from an expert who said microscopic hair analysis determined Broadwater had committed the crime. As the AP noted, that \u201ctype of analysis is now considered junk science by the US Department of Justice.\u201dBroadwater\u2019s attorney, David Hammond, would later tell the Post-Standard of Syracuse: \u201cSprinkle some junk science onto a faulty identification, and it\u2019s the perfect recipe for a wrongful conviction.\u201dBroadwater\u2019s 16-year prison term ended in 1999, but he was ordered to register as a sex offender. Since then, he\u2019s worked as a trash collector and handyman, though he told the AP that the wrongful conviction always hung over his head and kept him from better jobs. It also strained his relationship with family and friends.When he married a woman who believed he was innocent, he refused to have kids.\u201cWe had a big argument sometimes about kids, and I told her I could never, ever allow kids to come into this world with a stigma on my back,\u201d Broadwater told the AP.Last week, Broadwater\u2019s conviction was finally overturned.\u201cI never, ever, ever thought I would see the day that I would be exonerated,\u201d Broadwater reportedly said after his conviction was overturned.William Fitzpatrick, the Onondaga county district attorney, said in court that Broadwater\u2019s original conviction \u201cshould never have happened.\u201d\u201cI\u2019m not going to sully this proceeding by saying, \u2018I\u2019m sorry.\u2019 That doesn\u2019t cut it,\u201d Fitzpatrick reportedly said. \u201cThis should never have happened.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}