{"id":1349081,"date":"2022-02-28T06:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T11:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1349081"},"modified":"2022-02-28T11:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:52:47","slug":"man-wrongfully-convicted-of-raping-the-lovely-bones-author-is-suing-new-york-for-50-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-wrongfully-convicted-of-raping-the-lovely-bones-author-is-suing-new-york-for-50-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Wrongfully Convicted Of Raping \u2018The Lovely Bones\u2019 Author Is Suing New York For $50 Million"},"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\">32<\/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-is-suing-new-york-for-50-million%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=1349081&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1237085712.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison for a rape he didn\u2019t commit. While his name was finally cleared last November, Broadwater is now suing the state of New York for $50 million for unjust imprisonment and the decades he spent on the sex offender registry stemming from his wrongful conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Broadwater was exonerated on November 22, 2021, more than 20 years after his prison sentence ended in 1999. He had been convicted for the 1981 rape of Alice Sebold, author of \u201cThe Lovely Bones,\u201d who detailed the alleged crime in her 1999 memoir, \u201cLucky,\u201d The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/man-wrongfully-convicted-of-raping-the-lovely-bones-author-has-finally-been-cleared\">reported<\/a>. 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\u00a0<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>Sebold has apologized for getting the wrong man convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Broadwater filed his lawsuit on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/crime\/2022\/02\/alice-sebold-rape-anthony-broadwater-sues-ny-seeking-50-million-for-wrongful-conviction.html?outputType=amp\">according to Syracuse.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s also putting the Onondaga County District Attorney\u2019s Office and the city of Syracuse police on notice of a future, second lawsuit, specifically accusing county prosecutors and city police of egregious misconduct,\u201d the outlet reported. \u201cIn both lawsuits, Broadwater is getting help from noted trial lawyer Earl Ward, who has a past multi-million dollar settlement in wrongful conviction case and, in 2016, helped win a murder acquittal for North Country soccer coach Oral \u2018Nick\u2019 Hillary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Broadwater did nothing to cause his own conviction,\u201d Broadwater\u2019s lawsuit says. \u201cIn fact, he did everything he could to prove his innocence. Mr. Broadwater has suffered the consequences of an unjust conviction and imprisonment, and he is due damages from the State of New York\u2026\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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison for a rape he didn\u2019t commit. While his name was finally cleared last November, Broadwater is now suing the state of New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1349081","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\/1349081","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349081\/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=1349081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}