Ronald Cotton A Symbol of Hope for the Wrongfully Accused

Ronald Cotton (45) OF - Career Stats 2012 Game-by-Game Stats 2011 Game-by-Game Stats 2012 (Sophomore): Played in 16 games, 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 ... Ronald Martinez/Getty Images. If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may ... She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive ... The narrator notes, ''Ronald Cotton was only the latest in a string of prisoners released because DNA had shown that they were wrongfully ... The rape of Jennifer Thompson was horrific. But police procedures at the time, in 1984, caused her to accuse the wrong man. When he was finally exonerated by ... A decade earlier, Poole, who was an inmate at the same prison as Cotton, had confessed to. Page 2. 148. GIROUX, BOYD, CONNOLLY, AND BERNSTEIN these crimes. Yet, ... The Ohio State Buckeyes defeated the Texas Longhorns 28-14 in the Cotton Bowl Classic on Friday night ... (Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images) ... In 1984, Jennifer Thompson identified Ronald Cotton out of a lineup for her rape. DNA evidence later exonerated Cotton after he had served 11 years in prison. Cotton and Thompson-Cannino worked with author Erin Torneo to write “Picking Cotton,” a best-selling memoir written about their experiences and the need for ...