![]() ![]() The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal clinic that helped prove Ronal Cotton innocent. Therefore, Cotton was pardoned and received a stipend check from the State of North Carolina every month for the 10.5 years that he spent in State prison for a crime he did not commit. In May of 1995 DNA testing results showed that Ronald Cotton did not commit these crimes. A superior court judged was informed that another inmate had admitted to the crimes that Cotton was charged for, but the court did not allow this information to be heard during the trial. A flashlight found in Cotton’s home that was similar to the one used during the rape of Jennifer Thompson. Cotton served 10.5 years in prison, based on an eyewitness testimony and rubber from his tennis shoes that were consistent with rubber found at Jennifer Thompsons’ home. Ronald Cotton was wrongly convicted of two counts of rape and two counts of burglary he was sentenced to life in prison plus 54 years. The memoir Picking Cotton is about a young white female (Jennifer Thompson) who was allegedly raped by an African-American man (Ronald Cotton) in 1984 in North Carolina. ![]()
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