through as an 18 year old girl and how, months later, she d spotted a black ban in the street who she d identifed to police. a black man. but when he was arrested, she failed to pick him out in a police line up. nonetheless, he was charged and in the subsequent trial she told the court anthony broadwater was responsible. a film producer who had doubts about anthony broadwater s conviction was timothy mucciante. he was adapting the memoir for a film, but left the project over his doubts and hired a private investigator to dig deeper. he s been telling me about the first time he felt something was wrong with the conviction. certainly the first time i read the book, which was january 2021, i noticed there were parts of the book not relating to her tragic attack, but relating to the arrest and conviction of and trial, rather, of who she names in the book as gregory madison.
looks similar or not. so where did it go from there? once you had convinced yourself and the private investigator, sort of, had backed up your thinking, where did you go? who did you convince that they needed to relook at the case? well, we realised dan myers, the investigator and i realised we needed to get attorneys involved for anthony. so we reached out to an attorney in syracuse named dave hammond, and he brought in another attorney named melissa schwartz, both excellent attorneys, and did a very, very good job, obviously. but they are the ones who had to do the legal research, make the legal court filings, reach out to the district attorney in charge of the case, and file those papers in court which eventually ended in the exoneration of anthony on 22 november. now he says that it would be
this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the eu chief says the time may have come for countries in the bloc to mandate the covid vaccine. we ll talk to the leader of bosnia s bosniak party about fears of a balkan break up. plus, the american author, alice sebold, apologises for her part in the conviction of man cleared of raping her in 1981. we speak the film producer who got the evidence that cleared anthony broadwater. perhaps at no stage since the conflict in bosnia ended
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but there is a lot of what alice said about anthony and his family the investigator found anthony had no trouble with the law before this case, he was in the marines, just released from the marines, discharged right before he was arrested. and he has had no criminal history since he left prison in 1998. he s not been compensated by the state as far as i can work out how does he live today, where does he live? what s his means of income? he lives a very simple life, he and his wife, you know, go out and collect plastic bottles and cans that they return to the store to get the money back from the deposits people leave on the side of the road. he also does some handyman work. he does, you know, like roofing