A list of puns related to "Alice Sebold"
Recently, Anthony Broadwater, the man convicted for Sebold's rape in 1981, was exonerated after a new investigation.
I don't think I have much I'm going to say on it myself, other than that I think some people are directing too much anger at Sebold personally for this. This is actually the reason I am asking for perspectives here, and also because I am quite tired of only finding reddit posts full of 'mensrights'-posters drooling all over it.
Edit: I just realized I meant to write she's author of 'The Lovely Bones' but accidentally wrote "Lucky Bones"
Thank you for the thoughtful responses and perspectives.
In 1999, a memoir titled "Lucky" was published by author Alice Sebold. The memoir describes a sexual assault perpetrated by a black man against an 18-year-old Sebold in May, 1981. Sebold was about 36 when the memoir was published.
It recently came to light that the alleged rapist described in the book, a man named Anthony Broadwater, was in fact innocent. He was exonerated in November, 2021. (Sebold called the perpetrator "Gregory Madison" in her memoir.)
There is good coverage of the exoneration and what led up to it by Tom Leonard of the Daily mail here:
Sebold's memoir describes her encounter with her rapist while walking home through a tunnel to an amphitheater near the Syracuse University campus. The title of Lucky was inspired by a purported murder that happened in this tunnel prior to her assault.
Here is an excerpt of her memoir:
https://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/lucky-0/excerpt
The opening passage is this:
"In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheater, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered. I was told this story by the police. In comparison, they said, I was lucky."
The night of the rape, Sebold describes seeing a hair tie and wondering if it belonged to the tunnel murder victim:
"During the rape my eye caught something among the leaves and glass. A pink hair tie. When I heard about the dead girl, I could imagine her pleading as I had, and wondered when her hair had been pulled loose from her hair tie."
This suggests that in Sebold's mind the murder took place in recent years (relative to 1981). If a police officer had told her that the murder had occurred in 1953, for example, she wouldn't have wondered if the hair tie had belonged to the victim.
At any rate, the murder must have occurred before the spring of 1981. I googled looking for any mention by the press of a murder and dismemberment in Syracuse before 1981. Surely such a murder and dismemberment would have made the news and caused a sensation in a small community such as Syracuse.
Google should turn up something, shouldn't it
... keep reading on reddit ➡Anthony Broadwater exonerated!
From the article : In “Lucky,” Sebold tells the story of, while walking on Marshall Street months after the attack, spotting the man she said raped her. She writes of alerting police who arrested him and later testifying against him at trial.
Broadwater spent more than 16 years in state prison for Sebold’s rape. He was released on New Year’s Day 1999, when he was 38 years old, and has remained on the state’s public sex offender registry.”
The long-ago trial largely hinged on two crucial pieces of evidence: Sebold’s initial misidentification of the suspect during a police lineup and microscopic hair analysis, later deemed junk science by the federal government.”
Broadwater said he “truly and strongly” sympathizes with Sebold’s plight.
“Something did happen, but I was not the person,” Broadwater said. “I just hope and pray that, if she had doubts, then she should have come forward and said, ‘Hey, it wasn’t this man.’
My thoughts: I read this book a long time ago in high school and I still remember empathizing w her story and the sheer trauma of her experience. She described the incident so vividly, you can almost picture it. It’s horrific.
I also remember that even in the book, she admittedly misidentified her rapist in a lineup, picking a different man than the one ultimately convicted. This happened nearly five months after the rape while walking down the same street when she spotted Broadwater. We now know that the only positive ID of Broadwater was in a courtroom where he was the only black man in the room.
The racial element here cannot be ignored! We now know a lot now about cross racial ID as well as the “DNA” evidence junk science he was convicted on.
To think that the wrong man, a black man, was incarcerated for 16 years for this is sickening. This case is as clear of an example of the fuckery of the criminal legal system. From the false ID to the forced ID, the “DNA” evidence, the prosecution who just pinned this to Broadwater, the terrible defense attorney who barely presented a defense and convinced Broadwater to do a bench trial, the Judge, Broadwater was failed a systemic level.
I’m really happy that he has been exonerated. Especially now the memoir is getting made in to be a movie.
What do y’all think about this case??
[40-year-old Syracuse rape conviction at the heart of author Alice Sebold’s memoir is thrown out](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.syracuse.com/news/2021/11/40-year-old-syracuse-r
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hello /r/menslib. This is a mostly off the cuff post in response to the Anthony Broadwater situation since I haven't seen anyone talking about it in this space. For those who aren't aware, Anthony Broadwater is a black man who was imprisoned for 16 years after being falsely convicted of the rape of Alice Sebold in 1981. The details of the case and the conviction are covered in this article if you want to learn more. This of course, is not a particularly unique situation. It's only been days since the Groveland 4 had their convictions posthumously overturned. Black men having their lives destroyed by false convictions that are then overturned long after the fact, with little to no actual compensation for the losses has been a consistent historical occurrence.
But I'm not here to talk specifically about these instances, the ones that make it to the news and generate headlines. I want to talk about the underlying perceptions of black men that generate these situations in the first place, and how they have influenced how I learned to navigate the world and my thoughts as a 22 year old black man. I especially want to share how this has shaped my relationship with progressive spaces over the years as well.
On Progressive Spaces and Black Men
In my experience, while progressive spaces are comfortable discussing racism, they often fall short in understanding the gendered elements of it. I suspect it comes from a sort of pseudo-intersectional lens that views social oppression as neatly stacking categories that can basically be ranked neatly. In this view cishet white men are at the top of the social hierarchy, followed by singularly oppressed people such as cishet black men, cishet white women, cis gay men, etc who are then followed by "doubly" oppressed groups like cishet black women, cis lesbian white women, and so on. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sort of framing of oppression seems rather common in progressive spaces.
When applied to black men this view suggests that, while we certainly are oppressed, that oppression we face is uniquely tied to our race and nothing else. Thus progressive spaces may talk about black issues or black women's issues, but the idea of black men's issues, as being both gendered and racialized issues, are sort of tacitly assumed to be nonexistent or not significant enough to warrant unique consideration. This view is, in my
... keep reading on reddit ➡With the post about Alice Seabold’s case being overturned, I wanted to bring up a similar example from a book I’ll never forget. Two people I’ll never forget. This case happened in the 80s as well. Eye witness testimony is notoriously faulty. But we didn’t know that before. It makes me grateful for DNA testing.
I met these folks in 2013 at a legal conference. As they told their story and talked about their book I was just so shocked that she picked the wrong person from a lineup. Just like people are now about Alice Sebold. But I don’t want to blame the victims - trauma does terrible things to the mind and especially for this case, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino was so sure. Memory is just faulty sometimes. He also looked just like her sketch.
They’ve somehow become friends through all this, which I found absolutely shocking, I couldn’t imagine how he could forgive her and befriend her after that. I can’t imagine what that would take. But he did, and they wrote a book together, a book I found extremely compelling.
Alice Sebold getting brought up in the media is making me want to read it again. Has anyone else read it and got any thoughts on it, especially the similarities? I wonder how many other examples of it are out there… countless, surely… And how many other books there are about similar situations. If wrongful conviction was a genre, I think it would be one of my favorites. It is so interesting to see it from every angle, I think that’s what I liked the most about Picking Cotton as Ronald Cotton and Jennifer Thompson-Cannino wrote it together. You see both sides of it.
(Reposting to remove promo link)
> A escritora que descreveu o crime na obra "Lucky" reconhece a inocência de Anthony Broadwater 23 anos após ter sido ilibado.
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>Anthony Broadwater foi apontado durante 16 anos como o homem que violou a escritora do livro mundialmente conhecido "Visto do Céu". O caso ressurge novamente com o pedido de desculpa de Alice Sebold, 23 anos após o homem ter sido libertado. A escritora descreveu o crime na autobiografia "Lucky".
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>A obra, que foi publicada em 1999, retrata a experiência traumática pela qual passou quando tinha 17 anos, em 1981. Alice foi espancada e violada por um homem negro quando voltava a casa.
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>De acordo com a BBC, alguns meses após o acontecimento, Alice Sebold deparou-se com Anthony Broadwater na rua e julgou que tinha sido ele o agressor. Avisou as autoridades, o homem foi detido, mas a autora não o conseguiu identificar no reconhecimento criminal, feito na esquadra, e acabou por apontar para outro homem.
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>Ainda assim, Broadwater acabou por ir a tribunal à mesma. A sentença de Anthony foi ditada com base no testemunho da vítima e numa análise considerada superficial ao cabelo.
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>PRODUTOR EXECUTIVO LEVA À REABERTURA DO CASO
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>O produtor executivo que estava a trabalhar na adaptação de "Lucky", a obra de Sebold, considerou a história suspeita e ponderou que Broadwater poderia ter sido falsamente acusado do crime de violação. Tim Mucciante chegou a abandonar a produção do filme e contratar um detetive privado para apurar a verdade.
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>A investigação provou que Anthony Broadwater era inocente, tendo sido libertado quando cumpriu 16 anos de prisão. Contudo, permaneceu registado na lista dos agressores sexuais.
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>A longa-metragem teria como protagonista a atriz Victoria Pedretti.
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>PEDIDO DE DESCULPA DA AUTORA
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>A autora norte-americana pediu desculpa ao homem que falsamente incriminou, 23 anos após ter sido dado como inocente.
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> *"Lamento acima de tudo pelo facto de a vida que poderia ter levado lhe tenha sido injustamente roubada e sei que nenhuma descul
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