The apology came eight days after the conviction of the man, Anthony J.
“I am sorry most of all for the fact that the life you could have led was unjustly robbed from you,” she wrote.
In “Lucky,” which was published in 1999, she gives a searing account of the assault and of the trauma she subsequently endured.
The memoir chronicles mishaps in the case, including the fact that a composite sketch of her attacker, based on her description, did not resemble him.
He had always insisted he was innocent and was denied parole several times for refusing to acknowledge guilt.
Mr. Mucciante hired a private investigator, Dan Myers, who had spent 20 years with the Sheriff’s Office in Onondaga County, N.Y., before retiring as a detective in 2020.
Mr. Myers, who shares office space with a law firm, recommended that Mr. Broadwater hire one of the lawyers there, J.
In their motion to vacate the conviction, Mr. Hammond and a second lawyer, Melissa K.