$5.5 MILLION WILL NOT GET HIM BACK THE 16 YEARS HE WRONGFULLY SPENT IN PRISON

State of New York will pay $5.5 million to black man who spent 16 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of raping author Alice Sebold

 

Daily Mail 

March 27, 2023

 

 

New York State will pay a man who was wrongly convicted and imprisoned for raping author Alice Sebold more than $5 million after he filed a lawsuit following his release. 

Anthony J. Broadwater, 62, was imprisoned for 16 years for Sebold's rape, which occurred when she was a college student at Syracuse University in 1981. 

According to the New York Times, lawyers for Broadwater signed a settlement last week and New York's Attorney General Letitia James was present.  The agreement will be sent to a judge for signing off. 

Melissa Swartz, a lawyer for Broadwater, said Ramón E. Rivera with the state's court had verbally approved. 

'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,' Broadwater said Monday. 

The wrongfully imprisoned man had his conviction vacated by a New York judge in November 2021 who said at the time the case against him was deeply flawed.