The State of New York will have to pay 5.5 million dollars to Anthony J. Broadwater, this man who had been falsely accused of sexual assault on the American author Alice Sebold.
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Lawyers for Mr. Broadwater settled last week with Attorney General Letitia James, according to The New York Times.
In 1998, a judge overturned the judgment because his trial was deeply flawed after he spent 16 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Mr. Broadwater had been arrested a few months after the assault, when the young woman had passed him in the street and thought she recognized him.
Alice Sebold apologized in a post on the site Medium of misidentifying the man who allegedly assaulted her in 1981 when she was an 18-year-old student at Syracuse University.
In 1999, Ms. Sebold wrote “Lucky”, a memoir in which she recounted the assault in a park near the university.
