Picking cotton, our memoir of injustice and redemption, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton ; with Erin Torneo
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Picking cotton, our memoir of injustice and redemption, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton ; with Erin Torneo
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biography
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Picking cotton
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Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton ; with Erin Torneo
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our memoir of injustice and redemption
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In July of 1984 in Burlington, North Carolina, Jennifer Thompson was raped in her own bed by an armed assailant. Not two months later, Thompson identified Ronald Cotton as the attacker, who was tried and sentenced to life in prison. However, after eleven years behind bars, Cotton was found innocent through DNA testing. Some time later, the two met and forged an unlikely friendship
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