Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption (Audiobook)

from dablackwood

I read this book for my book club and though I don't think it is beautifully written, it is definitely a compelling story. Who doesn't like to read of wrongs being righted? Jennifer Thompson was positive that she had identified correctly the man who broke into her home and raped her. She confiden...

from abbylibrarian

On July 29, 1984, Jennifer Thompson was raped in her North Carolina apartment. She made a conscious effort to notice the details of her attacker's face and was able to pick him out of a lineup. Ronald Cotton was convicted of the crime and sent to prison. Eleven years later, new DNA testing reveal...

from elmoelle

I am an attorney, and as an attorney you are taught to marshal the facts you have before you and organize them into a cogent argument for your position. That is what the prosecutor in this book did. However, this tunnel visioned manner of carrying out justice resulted in a man who was innocent be...

from PamV

I finished this yesterday and will be giving it 4 stars. It was pretty eye-opening about the number of overturned convictions. It just seems like we could be doing a better job at setting the innoocent free. It takes money and obviously if you are in prison, you ddo not have access to the resourc...

from Schmerguls

5657. Picking Cotton Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption, by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo (read 3 Nov 2019) This is a moving and fantastic book. It is a book co-authored by the victim of a brutal rape in North Carolina and the man she mistakenly identified as th...