From Wrongful Imprisonment to Redemption The Ronald Cotton Story

The story of Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton is one of liberation and forgiveness. In 1984, Thompson testified that Cotton raped her, ... She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive ... Episode 36 - The Wrongful Conviction of Ronald Cotton. In July of 1984, a man broke into the apartment of Jennifer Thompson in Burlington, North ... Look up the case of Ronald Cotton... It was an unfortunate case of misidentifying an assalit. A woman was assaulted by a black man, ... Looking for a book by Ronald Cotton? Ronald Cotton wrote Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption, which can be purchased at a lower price at ... An interview with Ronald Cotton [Forensic Reform Advocate] “I asked him, did he commit the crime that they had me locked up for?” The riveting true story of Jennifer Thompson, a Southern white college student who was violently raped at knifepoint, and Ronald Cotton. A person was wrongly convicted of a crime and later cleared of all the charges based on new evidence of innocence. Cotton was convicted of both rapes and two counts of burglary. An Alamance County Superior Court sentenced Cotton to life plus 54 years. The 60-minute segment of Ronald Cotton and Jennifer Thompson is exactly how legal system can fail us when it comes to the eyewitnesses' identification ...