The man convicted of the rape depicted in Alice Sebold’s 1999 memoir LUCKY was exonerated after 40 years this week. Anthony J. Broadwater, 61, had served 16 years in prison and then was registered as a sex offender for the crime, but always maintained his innocence. On Monday, a New York state judge overturned all of his charges, and his classification as a sex offender, due to flaws in the original trial—misconduct by the prosecution, now-discredited hair analysis, and Sebold’s misidentification of Broadwater. Timothy Mucciante, the former executive producer of the forthcoming Netflix film adaptation of LUCKY, helped bring the […]
