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Picking Cotton

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That's the title of a powerful new book by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton.  The subtitle is, Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption.  It's available now for purchase from Amazon.com.Thompson-Cannino wrongly identified Ronald Cotton as her rapist; testimony that sent Cotton to prison for 11 years.  In 1995, DNA proved Cotton innocent and pointed to another man as the true perpetrator.  Since then, Thompson-Cannino has been a vocal proponent of eyewitness identification reforms, and she has worked with the man she once saw as her offender."Rage, finally set free," is a review by Jim Morrill in the Raleigh (NC) News & Observer.In "Picking Cotton," they tell their story in their own words...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 08, 2009 (boomark / email).