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.
so what did you do at that point? you hired a private investigator, correct? well, there were several events that sort of piqued my, you know, curiosity about the case over the next six months. i was eventually fired from the film in part because i was pushing back on this issue of, you know, is this story accurate? and after that point, i tried to investigate the case on my own didn t get anywhere. so then i hired a private investigator in late june, earlyjuly. but what was it specifically in the book that piqued your interest? the first thing was the scene regarding the line up, where alice identified who she calls gregory madison, but who is anthony broadwater or she tries to identify him, i should say. she fails to make an identification and typically in the american legal system, that would be the end of the case as it relates to that suspect, you know, she couldn t identify him, it s over. but the assistant district attorney,
A screen adaptation of the memoir Lucky is no longer in production after the man who was found guilty of the crime at the centre of the story is exonerated