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Picking Cotton : our memoir of injustice and redemption  Cover Image Book Book

Picking Cotton : our memoir of injustice and redemption / Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, with Erin Torneo.

Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer. (Author). Cotton, Ronald. (Added Author). Torneo, Erin. (Added Author).

Summary:

The story behind the unlikely friendship which developed between the accused rapist Ronald Cotton--who served eleven years in prison for a crime he didn't commit--and his accuser, Jennifer Thompson, raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept.

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  • ISBN: 9780312376536
  • ISBN: 0312376537
  • Physical Description: 298 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009.
Subject: Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer.
Cotton, Ronald.
Rape victims > North Carolina > Burlington > Biography.
Rape > North Carolina > Burlington > Case studies.
Forgiveness > Case studies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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Covington Branch 362.883 T478p 2009 (Text) 33126015322492 Adult Nonfiction Available -

JENNIFER THOMPSON-CANNINO lives in North Carolina with her family. She speaks frequently about the need for judicial reform, and is a member of the North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission, the advisory committee for Active Voices, and the Constitution Project. Her op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, the Durham-Herald Sun, and the Tallahassee Democrat.

RONALD COTTON lives with his wife and daughter in North Carolina. He has spoken at various schools and conferences including Washington and Lee University, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Georgetown Law School, and the Community March for Justice for Troy Anthony Davis in Savannah, GA.

ERIN TORNEO is a Los Angeles-based writer. She was a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Nonfiction Fellow.

The authors received the 2008 Soros Justice Media Fellowship for PICKING COTTON.


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