Alice Sebold...

[sxturbo]

Surprised this hasn't been posted previously (if it has I'm sorry for the repost)

So turns out she's quite the Karen, sent an innocent man to jail based on a feeling.

Ok there was other things at play like a skewed law system against black Americans, but he wouldn't have been arrested had it not been for her initial phonecall and then confirming him in a court of law.

She didn't care whether he was the culprit she just wanted someone to take the can for it whatever the costs.

I think she should give him some of the millions she has earned off the back of this story to provide some form of reparations to this poor man and his family for the damaged caused by the initial conviction and the years lost of his life.

She won't do anything though... She'll put out half arsed statements to the press but no action.

 

[SirGalahad]

Surprised this hasn't been posted previously (if it has I'm sorry for the repost)

So turns out she's quite the Karen, sent an innocent man to jail based on a feeling.

Ok there was other things at play like a skewed law system against black Americans, but he wouldn't have been arrested had it not been for her initial phonecall and then confirming him in a court of law.

She didn't care whether he was the culprit she just wanted someone to take the can for it whatever the costs.

I think she should give him some of the millions she has earned off the back of this story to provide some form of reparations to this poor man and his family for the damaged caused by the initial conviction and the years lost of his life.

She won't do anything though... She'll put out half arsed statements to the press but no action.

She wasn't even able to pick him out from a line up.

If she is sincere in her apology she should do more to improve the US Justice system which does let down victims and incarcerates innocent people. Yes there is a clear bias against black people in the system and the best way for Sebold to make ammends is use her influence to make changes.

Sebold was a young girl at the time who had suffered a horrific event, it's why you cannot rely on witness testimony alone.

"
In 1999, Sebold wrote in Lucky of being raped and then spotting a Black man in the street several months later who she believed was her attacker.

Sebold, who is white, went to police. An officer said the man in the street must have been Broadwater, who had supposedly been seen in the area.

After Broadwater was arrested, Sebold failed to identify him in a police lineup, picking a different man as her attacker because she was frightened of “the expression in his eyes”.

Prosecutors put Broadwater on trial anyway. He was convicted based largely on Sebold identifying him as her rapist on the witness stand and testimony that microscopic hair analysis had tied him to the crime. That type of analysis has since been deemed junk science by the US Department of Justice."

 

[fillyboy]

 

[transam]

To right total disgrace

she should be sent to prison as well as coughing up some serious money to the bloke

there was another case on the radio about some woman who ran a nursery in New Jersey in the 80s

accused and found guilty of over 200 incidents of so called child abuse against nursery children sentenced to 47 years

totally
Innocent of any wrong doing and released after 5 years case against her was a shambles

then there is that Carl beech fruit cake and his fantasy allegations

 

[conny]

Haven't read the story but, from what I glean from here, if anyone makes money from a situation like this the least that should happen is ALL that money goes to the family of the person incarcerated and the guilty sent to prison instead.

 

[gasbanni]

That would be justice ....so t

Haven't read the story but, from what I glean from here, if anyone makes money from a situation like this the least that should happen is ALL that money goes to the family of the person incarcerated and the guilty sent to prison instead.

That would be justice so there's no chance it will happen.

 

[IT Minion]

She was raped, then it gets less clear and more complex. When she couldn't ID Broadwater then that should have stopped the prosecution, or at least derailed. That wasn't her choice to make.

There are people at fault here, absolutely, but Alice Sebold wasn't the prosecutor.

 

[sxturbo]

She was raped, then it gets less clear and more complex. When she couldn't ID Broadwater then that should have stopped the prosecution, or at least derailed. That wasn't her choice to make.

There are people at fault here, absolutely, but Alice Sebold wasn't the prosecutor.

She did stand in court and confirm it was him who was the attacker. Even though she wasn't actually 100% certain

 

[SirGalahad]

She did stand in court and confirm it was him who was the attacker. Even though she wasn't actually 100% certain

Sebold does shoulder blame but not entirely when the system had so many flaws and bias.

If anything positive is to come from this she can make a gesture to him - either financially or otherwise but use her influence to draw attention to these flaws and help improve the system. This is the occasion where an innocent man was incarcerated there are other situations where we see people walk free.

It's a fine balancing act and needs cool heads.

 

[sxturbo]

Sebold does shoulder blame but not entirely when the system had so many flaws and bias.

If anything positive is to come from this she can make a gesture to him - either financially or otherwise but use her influence to draw attention to these flaws and help improve the system. This is the occasion where an innocent man was incarcerated there are other situations where we see people walk free.

It's a fine balancing act and needs cool heads.

Agreed I never said she was solely to blame

 

[noseall]

US justice has never been the most reliable and has always had it roots embedded in politics. What with their massively divided political battlegrounds and their love of guns, it truly is a nutty place to live.

 

[JohnD]

It used to be quite common for police to show witnesses photos of their preferred suspect to plant the seed in their mind.

Newspapers, and people like Yaxley-Lennon, like to do the same.

Since the witness here initially failed to identify the arrested man, and later, did (seemingly incorrectly) identify him, perhaps something happened to change her mind.

 

[sxturbo]

It used to be quite common for police to show witnesses photos of their preferred suspect to plant the seed in their mind.

Newspapers, and people like Yaxley-Lennon, like to do the same.

Since the witness here initially failed to identify the arrested man, and later, did (seemingly incorrectly) identify him, perhaps something happened to change her mind.

probably the want and need to point blame to enable them to move on...

dont forget to racists all black people look the same.....

 

[Munroast]

At the very least she should spend the same amount of time in prison as he did