After 40 YEARS, black man is finally exonerated of rape conviction after CAC falsely identified him!

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This story is sick. This story ruined this man's life and it only came to light because the producer of the movie about her book realized that her story was bullshyt:

Lucky” was also in the process of being filmed, and it was thanks to the film project itself that Broadwater’s conviction was overturned after four decades.

Tim Mucciante, who has a production company called Red Badge Films, had signed on as executive producer of the adaptation but became skeptical of Broadwater’s guilt when the first draft of the script came out because it differed so much from the book.

“I started poking around and trying to figure out what really happened here,” Mucciante told the AP on Tuesday.

Mucciante said that after dropping out of the project earlier this year he hired a private investigator, who put him in touch with Hammond, of Syracuse-based CDH Law, who brought in fellow defense lawyer Melissa Swartz, of Cambareri & Brenneck.


Hammond and Swartz credited Fitzpatrick for taking a personal interest in the case and understanding that scientific advances have cast doubt on the use of hair analysis, the only type of forensic evidence that was produced at Broadwater's trial to link him to Sebold's rape.

The fate of the film adaptation of “Lucky” was unclear in light of Broadwater’s exoneration. A messages seeking comment was left with its new executive producer, Jonathan Bronfman of Toronto-based JoBro Productions."



"Sebold wrote in “Lucky” that when she was informed that she’d picked someone other than the man she’d previously identified as her rapist, she said the two men looked “almost identical.”

She wrote that she realized the defense would be that: “A panicked white girl saw a black man on the street. He spoke familiarly to her and in her mind she connected this to her rape. She was accusing the wrong man.

Judge clears man who spent 16 years in prison for rape of author Alice Sebold
 

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Everybody involved needs to face some kind of consequences over this.
"Trust science" tho :rudy:
 

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This story's making my head hurt. :mindblown:

So, the guy who was falsely accused wasn't in the lineup? And she identified someone else, but that guy just disappeared and the other guy was still convicted?

What happened to the actual rapist? He went into witness protection? And everybody involved knew it was the wrong guy, but they sent him to jail anyway? And she revealed all this in her book like an idiot, and everybody turned a blind eye to it despite the book making her rich and famous? :mindblown:
 

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This story's making my head hurt. :mindblown:

So, the guy who was falsely accused wasn't in the lineup? And she identified someone else, but that guy just disappeared and the other guy was still convicted?

What happened to the actual rapist? He went into witness protection? And everybody involved knew it was the wrong guy, but they sent him to jail anyway? And she revealed all this in her book like an idiot, and everybody turned a blind eye to it despite the book making her rich and famous? :mindblown:

Was she even raped? Check out the shyt in her bio:

"It was a way of coping with the stress inside the household, which she dissected years later in her memoir, Lucky. Her parents were undemonstrative, and her mother suffered from panic attacks and endured a secret drinking problem for a number of years. Because her parents were more intellectual than their neighbors in their upper-middle-class world, Sebold recalled that they were considered somewhat "weird," a tag that followed her into college."

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