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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Author Alice Sebold apologizes to man cleared in 1981 rape
By KAREN MATTHEWS NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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GdTokyo
Nice of her given that it was her testimony that convicted him.
how fortunate it didn’t affect her career or fame.....
He only served 16 years for a crime he didn’t commit.
Express sister
16 years. For some, that's a lifetime.
It's good of Sebold to apologise to him. But the state needs to atone for its larger role in sending an innocent man to prison for a decade and a half. Broadwater deserves millions of dollars in compensation.
cla68
Another MeToo fiasco.
ReynardFox
Not really. This is another policing/justice system fiasco. It even says she didn’t identify the man in a police line-up, but the justice system chose to prosecute anyway by essentially coaching her enough to get her to identify him. This isn’t a case of someone making a false accusation: this is a case of the police and the justice system manipulating a traumatized 18 year old so that they could convict somebody. And when that somebody is a black man accused of raping a young white woman, they don’t need much evidence.