ALICE SEBOLD

Last week Anthony Broadwater was exonerated for the rape of author Alice Sebold, a case that has exposed inequities in the criminal justice system.

Eight days after Anthony Broadwater was exonerated of raping Alice Sebold in 1981, the author apologized for falsely identifying him.

"I am sorry most of all for the fact that the life you could have led was unjustly robbed from you," the author wrote in a statement. A judge exonerated Anthony Broadwater of the crime last week.

Author Rape Conviction Overturned FILE - Author Alice Sebold speaks at the Sunday Book and Author Breakfast at BookExpo America in New York on June 3, 2007. Sebold apologized Tuesday to Anthony Broadwater, 61, the man who was exonerated last week in the 1981 rape that was the basis for her memoir "Lucky." She said she was struggling with the role she unwittingly played "within a system that sent an innocent man to jail." An officer said the man in the street must have been Broadwater, who had supposedly been seen in the area. "I will continue to struggle with the role that I unwittingly played within a system that sent an innocent man to jail.

Author Alice Sebold has apologized to the man who was exonerated last week in the 1981 rape that was the basis for her memoir “Lucky.”.

Author Rape Conviction Overturned Anthony Broadwater breaks down crying Monday, Nov. 22, 2021, in Syracuse, N.Y., when a judge overturned his 40-year-old rape conviction. (Katrina Tulloch/The Post-Standard via AP) (Katrina Tulloch)A rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author Alice Sebold has been overturned because of what authorities determined were serious flaws with the 1982 prosecution and concerns the wrong man had been sent to jail. It was a stroll in the park to him; he had met an acquaintance on the street,” wrote Sebold, who is white. “Sprinkle some junk science onto a faulty identification, and it’s the perfect recipe for a wrongful conviction,” Broadwater's attorney, David Hammond, told the Post-Standard. “Lucky” was also in the process of being adapted for Netflix — it was thanks to the film project itself that Broadwater's conviction was overturned after four decades.