Ronald Cotton A Symbol of Resilience Amidst False Accusation

Cotton was convicted of both rapes and two counts of burglary. An Alamance County Superior Court sentenced Cotton to life plus 54 years. Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation. Phone: 832-355-1400. Languages: English. Departments: Liver Transplant Program. 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 ... RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Ronald Cotton watched on TV as Ronnie Long walked out of prison after serving 44 years for a crime he did not commit. An interview with Ronald Cotton [Forensic Reform Advocate] “I asked him, did he commit the crime that they had me locked up for?” Dr. Ronald T. Cotton introduces the General Surgery Residency Program in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. In January 1985, Cotton was convicted of Thompson's rape and sentenced to life in prison. That verdict, however, was overturned, and a new trial was ordered. Ronald Cotton clearly remembers his first meal as an almost free man. Bound by handcuffs, he sat at a McDonald's with two prison officers ... Background In July 1984, a young North Carolina man named Ronald Cotton was convicted of rape and burglary. The primary evidence? Second Trial Of Ronald Cotton V. ... In July of 1984, in Alamance County in North Carolina, an assailant broke into the victim's – Jennifer Thompson-Cannino – ...