Broadwater, 61, was cleared in November of his conviction for the rape after a re-examination of the case found serious flaws in his arrest and trial. He was convicted of raping Sebold, then an 18-year-old student at Syracuse University, in a tunnel near the college campus.
On November 22, 2021, Supreme Court Justice Gordon Cuffy granted the motion to vacate the convictions. Fitzpatrick then dismissed the case. Broadwater sobbed at the defense table, holding his head in his hands. Later, he said, “I never, ever, ever thought I would see the day that I would be exonerated.”
Anthony Broadwater was exonerated in the 1981 rape of Ms. Sebold, now a best-selling author. When his lawyers saw the trial transcript, they could only wonder what took so long. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month.
This week, Mr. Belter, 20, was sentenced in the assault on M.M. and in sexual attacks on three other teenage girls. Facing up to eight years in prison, he was instead given eight years' probation by a judge who said he had “agonized” over the decision.
16 yearsAnthony Broadwater, 61, was convicted in 1982 of raping Sebold when she was a student at Syracuse University. He served 16 years in prison. His conviction was overturned Nov. 22 after prosecutors reexamined the case and determined there were serious flaws in his arrest and trial.
16 yearsBroadwater spent more than 16 years in prison after being falsely convicted of author Alice Sebold's rape, the subject of her memoir “Lucky.” After his release in 1999, the same year the book was published, Broadwater became a registered violent sex offender, a purgatory that diminished his income, movement and quality ...
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.
American author Alice Sebold has apologised for her part in the wrongful conviction of a man who was cleared last week of raping her in 1981. In her memoir Lucky, she described being raped and later telling police she had seen a black man in the street who she believed was her attacker.
Syracuse, NY ― Anthony Broadwater is suing New York state, seeking $50 million for unjust imprisonment after spending 16 1/2 years in prison and decades on the sex offender registry in the 1981 rape of Alice Sebold -- a crime he did not commit. Broadwater, now 61, of Syracuse, was exonerated on Nov.
Factoring in unreported rapes, only about 6% of rapists ever serve a day in jail. If a rape is reported, there is a 50.8% chance of an arrest. If an arrest is made, there is an 80% chance of prosecution. If there is a prosecution, there is a 58% chance of conviction.
City of LockportBelter, who now lives in the City of Lockport, must pose for a mugshot annually at his local police department and verify his address every 90 days. "The finding that he is a Level 3 sexually violent predator renders the sentence of this court even more absurd," said Steven M.
According to State Police, Belter's mother, Tricia Vacanti, now 50; his stepfather, Gary E. Sullo, 56; and a family friend, Jessica M. Long, 42, supplied the girls with alcohol and marijuana during various parties and helped groom them for sexual assaults by Belter.