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title: "Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption"
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# Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

**Brand:** jennifer thompson-canninoronald cottonerin torneo
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- **What is this?** Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by jennifer thompson-canninoronald cottonerin torneo
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## Customer Reviews

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    Great read
  

*by S***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2023*

This was one of the books I had to get for my English class. It was greatly priced and packaged.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Moving on up
  

*by W***I on Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2010*

This case provides a graphic demonstration of how false convictions can be obtained based on eyewitness identifications.  For a legal summary, see Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial, U.S. Department of Justice, 1996, pp. 43-44.Two white women were raped.  One identified a black man named Ronald Cotton from a photo array and subsequently in a lineup.  The second identified another man in the lineup.  Ronald was tried for the first rape and convicted based almost exclusively on Jennifer's testimony; evidence of the result of the second lineup was excluded.The conviction was overturned on appeal on grounds that the jury should have heard about the results of the second lineup.  After follow-up (coaching?), woman 2 identified Cotton also.  The second trial was for both rapes, and again Ronald was convicted based on the eyewitness testimony.  Evidence (account of a fellow inmate) that another inmate had spoken of committing the rapes was excluded.The attorney filing the appeal of the second conviction failed to contest the exclusion of the evidence about the other man; the conviction was upheld.In subsequent proceedings, two new attorneys in the case requested DNA testing.  The results exonerated Cotton and produced a match when compared to the DNA database for violent criminals - to the other inmate who had spoken of committing the rapes.In 1995, Cotton was released after spending over a decade in prison and officially pardoned by the governor of North Carolina.The foregoing narrative is told in "Picking Cotton," which was jointly authored by the first rape victim (Jennifer Thompson-Cannino) and the defendant (Ronald Cotton), but the gripping part is not the legal action - it is the personal stories of these two people, both of whose lives were changed forever.The most remarkable part of the story is what happened afterwards, when Jennifer and Ronald reached out to each other and became fast friends.  Years later, Ronald and Jennifer would be talking at a soccer tournament (children of both were participating) and one of the other moms asked, "How do y'all know each other?"I loved Ron's response: "We go way back."  Maybe there is hope for the human race after all.

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    Picking Cotton.  captures the injustice of our flawed criminal justice system
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2022*

The injustice of what happened to these two people, the horror of being raped, and the horror of being  wrongfully convicted. A true horrifying story of a man that spent many years in jail and was later exonerated.Most people think our justice system doesn't arrest or convict innocent people. Most people think police officers and district attorneys will only prosecute someone if they know they're guilty or  if an eye witness states someone is guilty it must be true.Innocent people do get arrested and charged with crimes they didn't commit.Corrupt police can coerce statements to their liking and prosecutors will at times prosecute people for crimes they know they didn't commit. Picking Cotton is a incredibly sad and angering story,  but also an important one.

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