Exonerated after 43 Years in Prison Following Wrongful Conviction

Man Imprisoned for 16 Years for Raping Lovely Bones Author Is Exonerated
Anthony Broadwater, now 61, had no idea his accuser achieved fame and fortune while he has been living as a pariah for over 20 years on the sex offender registry.
Alice Sebold's bestselling 1999 memoir Lucky tells the story of a young woman raped by a stranger while attending Syracuse University. In the book, the rapist is caught and convicted. After writing about the experience, Sebold went on to write the bestseller The Lovely Bones, a fictional account of a teenage girl raped and killed. But last week Anthony Broadwater, the man who served 16 years in prison for raping Sebold, was exonerated.

Timothy Mucciante, a producer working on a film adaptation of Lucky, was fired after raising questions about inconsistencies in Sebold's story. Mucciante, who has a legal background, started reviewing the police files; he became even more troubled by discrepancies between the memoir and the facts of the case, to the point where he "couldn't sleep." Mucciante ended up hiring a private investigator to investigate further, and the P.I. broke the case. Broadwater's conviction turns out to have rested on shaky evidence: Sebold had had trouble identifying her assailant—she had initially picked a different man out of a lineup—and the only forensic evidence was a form of hair analysis that the government now considers junk science. Even at the time, the expert witness could only say that the attacker's hair was "consistent" with Broadwater's, not that it definitively was his hair.

Broadwater was placed on the New York Sex Offender Registry after his 1999 release, and he remained on it until a few days ago. His case starkly highlights the needless cruelty of sex offense registries.

Broadwater married after prison, but he never had children; he recently told the Syracuse Post-Standard that this was because he didn't want them growing up with a father with a rape conviction. Meanwhile, the newspaper notes, he was "turned away from countless jobs and educational opportunities over the years for one simple fact: he's a convicted rapist on the sex offender registry." This story is familiar to the nearly one million Americans on such registries, who are well-aware that the stigma extends beyond them to their families and all those close to them. Every registrant's photo, address, and crime are publicly posted, creating inescapable infamy and extremely limited job opportunities.
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https://reason.com/2021/11/29/man-i...for-raping-lovely-bones-author-is-exonerated/


Our justice system is a piece of shit.
 
Primavera said:
That surely was the case back in the day but it's not really true anymore and hasn't been for a long time. I think the main criteria for justice is not race but wealth. OJ Simpson is an excellent example of that.
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You don't know what's going on in the U.S. re: disparities in the justice system , or you wouldn't have made that comment. Even a majority of whites polled by Pew Research admit the system is slanted against blacks. You must be getting all your info from RW sites. Read some of these links and tell me how they're wrong.

https://orphicmagazine.com/2020/08/13/racial-disparity-in-u-s-criminal-justice-system/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-ta...s-we-know-about-race-and-policing-in-the-u-s/
https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/demographic-differences-sentencing
https://www.sentencingproject.org/p...racial-and-ethnic-disparity-in-state-prisons/
https://www.thoughtco.com/african-american-men-criminal-justice-system-2834814
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/...rities-criminal-justice-how-lawyers-can-help/
 
Sailor said:
Not me. You and Guno lied for sure though. You are both white, woke, welfare collecting democrats. Who do nothing but talk out your asses.
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Only a complete idiot would make up personal info about people he doesn't know, and claim that info is true.
 
Legion said:
Like this?
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If you insist on this dishonesty, I'll have to quote the real posts every time you bear false witness, leggiecrite.


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Originally Posted by CFM
Obama was nothing more than another black failure in a government job and another black family in government housing.

Stupid nigger.
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Evince: Oh right wing posters is this a racist post?

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Originally Posted by Granule
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It's like this, wackjob. If you're black and you vote democrat, then you're a "nigger". If you're white and you vote democrat, then you're "white trash". If you're Asian and you vote democrat, then you're a "zipper head". If you're Hispanic and you vote democrat, then you're a "wetback"...
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