Anthony BroadwaterAnthony Broadwater, who served 16 years in prison for the 1981 rape of the author Alice Sebold but was exonerated last year, has filed a $50m wrongful conviction lawsuit against New York state.
We know she lives in a $6 million mansion in San Francisco, which she brought in 2007, eight years after her memoir came out. In that memoir, Sebold was open about identifying the wrong man from a police lineup. "I placed my X in the number five box.
16 yearsYou know part of the story by now: Broadwater was wrongly convicted of the 1981 rape of Alice Sebold, a Syracuse University student who went on to become a best-selling author. Broadwater was finally exonerated in November, after 16 years in prison and 23 more years on the sex offender registry.
The exoneration was a stunning turn of events for the 61-year-old Broadwater, who was convicted in May 1982 of raping Alice Sebold on May 8, 1981 and sentenced to 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison. Numerous attempts to overturn the conviction were unsuccessful....Anthony Broadwater.State:New YorkAge at the date of reported crime:2011 more rows•Dec 8, 2021
Sebold currently lives in California with her husband, writer Glen David Gold.
Sebold remained steadfast in her belief that Broadwater was her attacker. “I could not have identified him as the man who raped me unless he was the man who raped me,” she later testified. After a trial that lasted just two days, Broadwater was sentenced to 8⅓ to 25 years in state prison.
He received $2.1 million. Shirley Kinge, who spent 2 years in prison as an accomplice to her son's alleged 1989 quadruple murder of four people in Dryden, Tompkins County, had her conviction overturned after it was revealed that state police had planted her fingerprint on a gasoline can.