Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison for a crime he did not commit – and would now like an apology from Sebold (via toofab)
Questions around the conviction were only raised when producer Tim Mucciante, who was working on an upcoming film adaptation of"Lucky" noticed inconsistencies between the script and the book.After dropping out of the project, he hired a private investigator, who in turn reached out to defense attorney David Hammond, who took on the case.
"And I will say to Mr. Broadwater that I assure him that it will never happen again; that we will never let junk science into a courtroom in this county," he added, perAdmitting that he could not give Broadwater his 16 years back, Supreme Court Justice Gordon Cuffy overturned the conviction and declared him a free man. Broadwater immediately broke down in tears:
Since his release from prison on New Year's Day 1999, Broadwater struggled to get employment because of the conviction, and was forced to largely remove himself from society. He later met and married his eventual wife who believed him from the start, but refused to have children with her because of the stigma they would be born with.
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