A man who spent 16 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping writer Alice Sebold when she was a Syracuse University student has settled a lawsuit against New York state for $5.5 million.
FILE - Anthony Broadwater, at his lawyers' office, CDH Law, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Broadwater was wrongfully convicted of Alice Sebold's 1981 rape and spent 16 years in prison.
Broadwater, 62, said in a statement relayed by Hammond, "I appreciate what Attorney General James has done, and I hope and pray that others in my situation can achieve the same measure of justice. We all suffer from destroyed lives." Sebold went on to win acclaim for her 2002 novel "The Lovely Bones," which recounts the aftermath of a teenage girl's rape and murder and was made into a movie starring Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon and Stanley Tucci.
Police arrested Broadwater, who was given the pseudonym Gregory Madison in "Lucky." But Sebold failed to identify him in a police lineup, picking a different man as her attacker.
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