Man wrongly accused in author Alice Sebold case settles lawsuit for $5.5 million

New York will pay $5.5 million to a man falsely accused of raping author Alice Sebold when she was a student at Syracuse University, according to his lawyers. Anthony Broadwater's conviction for raping Sebold in 1981 was overturned in 2021, after he had spent 16 years imprisoned before being released in 1991. The Associated Press [...]