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sewsewmaria t1_jdzqaxp wrote

Her dad is old friends with my dad, and we used to have play dates together when we were kids. We fell out of contact but I remember when this all went down and hearing about it through my dad. It’s wild to think about this happening to her. She was super sweet to me and I’m so happy that she has gotten some justice.

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cheap_walmart_art t1_jdzljqp wrote

Back in the day when i was 18 I got pulled over dead to rights leaving my dealers house. Needless to say I had definitely re-upped and was carrying. Enter stonecold Steve Austin sheriff who pulls me over. We do the song and dance and he feeds me this line about it being a routine traffic stop. I refuse a search. He brings the dog and gives me the whole spiel. However, the dog will not alert for some reason. He’s just happy and frolicking. Cop keeps yanking the poor thing over and it just won’t do whatever it is he wants it to do to my car. He just slings the dog forcibly back into the cruiser and tells me to leave and if he even sees me again on this side of town he will “arrest me on sight” no idea what luck was with me that day but I feel bad for the poor dog. Dude was PISSED at it.

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MagpiesAndCats t1_jdzkkoq wrote

Broadwater‘s luck was that Sebold’s second part of the book “Lucky”, about the trial, which was all over the place and didn’t make any sense, caught the attention of an executive producer called Mucciante, working to adapt Lucky on film. Mucciante hired a private investigator to review the evidences, which ended with Broadwater being exonerated.

Sebold didn’t really apologise to Broadwater; she carefully put together apologies that blame the system which she was an innocent part of. While what happened to her was horrific, the fact that later she saw a black man and she was 100% convinced he raped her, with no evidence whatsoever, puts just as much guilt over her as over the system.

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