Ronald Cotton was exonerated in 1995, after spending over 10 years in prison for crimes he did not commit. His convictions were based largely on flawed eyewitness identification procedures …

On August 1, 1984, Ronald Cotton was arrested for the rapes. In January 1985, Cotton was convicted by a jury of one count of rape and one count of burglary.

Dec 20, 2019 · On June 30, 1995, Cotton was officially cleared of all charges and released from prison. In July 1995, the governor of North Carolina officially pardoned Cotton. Cotton had …

Oct 30, 2015 · In 1985, a young white woman named Jennifer Thompson told a North Carolina courtroom that the man on trial, Ronald Cotton, a black restaurant dishwasher, had broken into …

After serving eleven years in prison for a crime he never committed, Ronald was released when a DNA test proved his innocence. Two years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face to face—and …

Mar 10, 2009 · On Tuesday, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and the man she mistakenly put in prison, Ronald Cotton, shared a couch on the TODAY show as they told co-host Meredith …

Fifteen years ago today, Ronald Cotton walked out of a North Carolina prison a free man for the first time in a decade. Since his release, he has turned his injustice into a teaching moment — …

Except maybe for Ronald Cotton. Thompson is a North Carolina rape victim whose eyewitness identification of a suspect put the wrong man in prison for life. Twice. Cotton is the innocent …

Mar 1, 2021 · The Wrongful Conviction of Ronald Cotton In July of 1984, a man broke into the apartment of Jennifer Thompson in Burlington, North Carolina, and raped her at knifepoint. …

Jun 18, 2000 · When the case went to trial in 1986, I stood up on the stand, put my hand on the Bible and swore to tell the truth. Based on my testimony, Ronald Junior Cotton was sentenced …