Nearly everyone in prison protests innocence, but Ronald Cotton was telling the truth. Cotton was just 22 when he walked into a Burlington, N.C., police station to answer rape allegations; he spent ...

Jennifer Thompson-Cannino was certain that Ronald Cotton was the man who raped her in 1984. But she was wrong. After Cotton spent 11 years in... Finding Freedom In Forgiveness Jennifer ...

In July 1984, Thompson-Cannino, a white college student in Burlington, N.C., was raped by a black intruder. She identified her assailant in a lineup as Cotton; he was sentenced to life plus 50 years.

EXCLUSIVE: Sidney Kimmel Entertainment will finance and produce Picking Cotton, and the company has set Jessica Sanders to direct a David Birke & Tony Mosher-scripted adaptation of the bestselling ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has bestowed its 2015 Special Courage Award jointly to Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton. Thompson was an Elon College student who identified Cotton, of Mebane, as the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Jennifer Thompson-Cannino is a Member for the North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Forum.

Producers David Friendly, Mark Clayman and Michael Menchel are teaming to develop a feature based on “Picking Cotton,” the memoir by rape victim Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and the man she mistakenly ...

Linda: In July of 1984, Jennifer Thompson was a 22-year-old college student in Burlington, North Carolina, just about to graduate. She had a boyfriend, also a college student, and they were talking ...

Jennifer Thompson-Cannino was certain that Ronald Cotton raped her in Burlington in the summer of 1984. She picked him out of a lineup, identified him in court and rejoiced when he was sentenced to ...