Man Wrongfully Convicted Of Raping ‘The Lovely Bones’ Author Is Suing New York For $50 Million
Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit. While his name was finally cleared last November, Broadwater is now suing the state of New York for $50 million for unjust imprisonment and the decades he spent on the sex offender registry stemming from his wrongful conviction.
Go get `em!
Please allow me to sit on the jury, I will award him 5 billion. A required confession from the accuser and a public apology. A 3 story house on any beach of his choice and a full staff of maids, butlers, landscaping workers, handyman a chauffer, and full time security staff and body guards.
The author, Alice Sebold, apologized publicly about the accusation. Her memoir, in which she wrote about the rape, will no longer be published. That being said, hope he gets every penny and then some.
Ok. Thats just funny. Can I be in that jury with you? I’ll make sure he gets all that and then some.
Pariah
Sure, a jury needs more than one person. 🙂
It’s time for the system to start paying for its mistakes.
If the DOJ would only consider the polygraph junk science too as it truly is (as they did in they did in this case with the microscopic hair analysis)…
I hope he gets all he can too, but the reality is the state will possibly appeal if nothing is settled on and/or the award is too high that could set precedent for others to follow. Appealing it would possibly get the award docked some value but as in the other linked article, the award was increased. Will be interesting.
I would imagine the embarrassment of this entire deal and the author’s apology is enough for the wrongfully convicted here (and really getting much money from her is minimal). However, in the interest of setting the environment straight, there should be an investigation into whether she should be charged with misdeeds, e.g. false report, related to this case. Of course, if they did, they would use the excuse it could stop others from reporting their possible allegations and thus increasing the unreported crimes…blah blah blah.
These cases will continue to happen because those guilty of putting an innocent man in prison never have to pay for what they’ve done.. She got a handsome book deal and the county got promotions.. Tax payer gets shafted with the bill and he looses years of his life that no amount of money can return
Reminds me very much of the first case that I helped a fellow inmate appeal in Michigan. James Grissom was falsely accused of raping Sara Ylen and sentenced to 15 to 35 years. Like this man, Grissom also participated in a lineup, yet Ylen picked another man out of the lineup who she was sure had raped her. Took 7 years and a change in court precedent for that appeal to get him released, but he had served 9 years by then for a crime that he didn’t admit. In fact, there never was a crime. She made the whole thing up.
Unfortunately, the state of Michigan passed a reparation law for those wrongly convicted a year AFTER Jim had been released, so he wasn’t eligible. Sara Ylen did eventually get punished after filing false claims against other men, but her sentence was a slap on the wrist compared to the damage she caused.
http://forejustice.org/db/Grissom–James-.html
Shouldn’t she be banned from any place that buys sells or has books ? After all her crime was committed with a book oh let’s add paper pencils pens or any way of non verball communication
In defense of Ms. Sebold, the author, she was raped as a college freshman. The DA lied and goaded her mistaken ID into getting a conviction.
BWJ, you are completely right. Police officers frequently decide early on in a case who did it. Then they influence witnesses to agree. Often ignoring any evidence that would conflict. In the Grissom case that I mentioned earlier, one of the officers in Saint Claire County went to her superiors with concerns that Sara Ylen had been known to lie before. They basically told her to drop that part of the investigation.
Gerald
As former law enforcement, I can tell you from what I saw, Females (At least when I did my tour of duty) were not taken seriously on the job. Back then it was almost unheard of for a female cop to even make it to corporal, let alone any higher command position.
Many were meter maids (Not even sure that exists anymore) or community service/outreach positions if not dispatchers or clerical positions. Now days we have female police chiefs, Sheriffs and even higher positions like FBI, CIA agents.
But there are still Cops who think women should not be in law enforcement, so it makes sense that they didn’t take her seriously in the story above. Similar to Those on the registry. When we call due to being attacked, threatened, or harassed, we (Or at least I) get told to file a report online. Not taken seriously or with care or concern.
She should write a book on false accusations and the guy who she wrongful accused writing about his experiences of having his life destroyed. All proceeds should go into his pockets and all who helped incarcerate an innocent man should be sent up the creek for the damages they have caused. I hope he gets $10 billion and takes everything from these crooks. This false accusations and expanding statues of limitations needs to be done away with because memory fails and our brains can play tricks.