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Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption, St. Martin's Press

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Array (Hardcover) St. Martin's Press 2009-03-03
Release date: 2009-03-03


Price: $25.95

Eyewitness Testimony Part 1


of the DNA exonerations of falsely convicted people like Ronald Cotton, who has now forgiven his accuser, Jennifer Thompson. ... lesley stahl 60 ...


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    • 'Picking Cotton' authors tell a story of forgiveness | InsideVandy

    In July of 1984 in the city of Burlington, N.C., 23-year-old Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint and accused Ronald Cotton. Although Cotton insisted he was innocent, he was taken to court and, based on Thompson’s identification of her assailant, was sentenced to life imprisonment.

    Eleven years later, Cotton took a DNA test and was proven innocent. Falsely accused, he had been behind bars for a crime he did not commit for more than a decade. Two years later Cotton and Thompson met face-to-face and forged an unlikely friendship. At 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday night, they told their story in Flynn Hall of the Vanderbilt Law School .

    According to Thompson, discovering that she had accused an innocent man was like discovering that your child wasn’t your child after all.

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    'Picking Cotton' authors tell a story of forgiveness

    InsideVandy - Nov 20, 2009

    'Picking Cotton' authors tell a story of forgivenessIn July of 1984 in the city of Burlington, NC, 23-year-old Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint and accused Ronald Cotton.
    Law Students Learn Legal System Makes Mistakes

    NewsChannel5.com - Nov 19, 2009

    Wednesday night Ronald Cotton and Jennifer Thompson shared their story with more than 100 future lawyers at Vanderbilt. They discussed how sometimes the Man Wrongly Imprisoned For Rape Forgives Accuserall 3 news articles »
    St. Paul Library's Got Friends

    Publishers Weekly - Nov 30, 2009

    St. Paul Library's Got Friends spoke of now-retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's role in the 2000 presidential election crisis, while Ronald Cotton and Jennifer Thompson-Cannino,
    Unique story of wrongful conviction and redemption topic of Nov. 18 lecture

    Vanderbilt University News - Nov 13, 2009

    The featured speakers are Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton. In 1984, Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she was
    Man wrongly ID'd in rape, accuser tell story

    CharlotteObserver.com - Nov 20, 2009

    Man wrongly ID'd in rape, accuser tell storyRonald Cotton, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1985, was freed 11 years later on the basis of DNA evidence. DNA also helped catch the real
    TV Tidbits: WGHP nabs eight nominations for regional Emmys

    Winston-Salem Journal - Nov 29, 2009

    general-assignment reporting, for Brent Campbell and Chad Tucker; serious-feature-news report, for a piece on Ronald Cotton, who was wrongly convicted and more »
    Business calendar

    News Sentinel - Dec 01, 2009

    Keynote speakers are Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton. Cost: $175 ($75 for nonprofit or government employees) includes CLE/CEU 6, parking,