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Originally Posted by yspobo
Sounds like she was raped but they blamed the wrong person. He was convicted because of the way it was investigated and not because the rape didn't happen.
I don't consider this to be pornography. The book does need to be updated. The real rapist got away with it.
Children do need to know about these dangers in life.
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It was Sebold who made the assertion that a black man who was walking down the street five months later, was the attacker
She notified police, who were initially unable to find the man she had encountered. After an officer suggested the man might have been Anthony Broadwater, who had reportedly been seen in the area, police arrested and charged Broadwater.
At the time the police had no leads, Sebold then identified a different person at the line up,
When police told her she had picked out the "wrong person", she said the two men looked "almost identical".
The prosecutor had also lied to Sebold, telling her that the man she identified in the lineup and Broadwater were friends and that they both came to the lineup to confuse her; attorneys argued that this falsehood had influenced Sebold's testimony. Sebold also wrote in Lucky that the prosecutor had coached her into changing her identification.
The conviction had relied heavily on Sebold's testimony, as well as on microscopic hair analysis, a forensic technique the United States Department of Justice later found to be unreliable
The first part of the book describing the attack is not the problem, it is the latter part dealing with the trial which is controversial and which is why proposed television and film adaptations were halted and publishers wanted this section amended to reflect the truth.
In 2019, a film adaption of the memoir was announced and Timothy Mucciante began working as executive producer on the project, he noticed discrepancies in the portion of Lucky that described the trial. He later told The New York Times: "I started having some doubts—not about the story that Alice told about her assault, which was tragic, but the second part of her book about the trial, which didn’t hang together".[ He ultimately left the project because of his concerns about the story, and hired a private investigator to review the evidence against Broadwater".
In November 2021, Broadwater was officially exonerated by a New York Supreme Court justice, who determined there had been serious issues with the original conviction, having served 16 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
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