How a Paid Expert Reversed His View of a Notoriously Flawed Prosecution in the Rape of a Bestselling Author
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Source: ProPublica
Published: 2026-07-17 20:00 UTC+10:00
Section: Criminal Justice
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Politics, Crime & Justice, Economy & Finance, Law & Courts, Sexual Violence, Business & Economy, Crime & Justice
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The upstate New York city of Syracuse seems at odds with itself when it comes to a notorious miscarriage of justice. Nearly five years ago, the district attorney of Onondaga County, William Fitzpatrick, stood up in court and excoriated his county’s decision decades earlier to prosecute Anthony Broadwater for the rape of author Alice Sebold.
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