![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Broadwater was also tied to the crime by microscopic hair analysis, which has since been declared to be broadly unreliable by the U.S. Of the many things I wish for you, I hope most of all that you and your family will be granted the time and privacy to heal.”Īlso on Tuesday, “Lucky” publisher Scribner released a statement announcing that, following Broadwater’s exoneration, distribution of all formats of the book would cease “while Sebold and Scribner together consider how the work might be revised.” Scribner said it had consulted with the author in making the decision.īroadwater, a Black man, was convicted in 1982 after Sebold, who is white, identified him in court as her attacker despite failing to identify him previously in a police lineup. “I am sorry most of all for the fact that the life you could have led was unjustly robbed from you, and I know that no apology can change what happened to you and never will. “I am truly sorry to Anthony Broadwater and I deeply regret what you have been through,” Sebold said Tuesday in a statement posted on Medium. ![]() Alice Sebold, the author whose 1999 memoir “Lucky” revisited the 1981 rape she suffered when she was a freshman in college, is apologizing to the man who spent 16 years behind bars for the crime, eight days after his conviction was overturned. ![]()
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