Yet through their shared pain, they have been able to forge a friendship that most of us search our lives for. “Few people have done more to put a human face on issues involving wrongful convictions than Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton. Scheck, Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Innocence Project®

Each of them tells an extraordinary story about crime, punishment and exoneration, but it’s their shared spiritual journey toward reconciliation and forgiveness that is even more compelling and profound.”-Barry C. Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. “What happened in this book will change what you think of the criminal justice system in this country, and challenge you to help fix it. The New York Times best selling true story of an unlikely friendship forged between a woman and the man she incorrectly identified as her rapist and sent to prison for 11 years.

Its message of hope should reverberate far beyond the halls of justice.”- Sister Helen Prejean, csj, author of Dead Man Walking a touching and beautiful example of the power of faith and forgiveness. 'This book will break your heart and lift it up again. Cotton and Thompson-Cannino describe their responses to the crime and the. It puts human faces on the problem of wrongful conviction caused by faulty eyewitness testimony and shows how even good people with the best intentions can get things terribly wrong.'- Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D, Past President, Association for Psychological Science and author of Eyewitness Testimony By Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton (with Erin Torneo). ' Picking Cotton is a brave, important book. When she is 22, Jennifer wakes in her apartment to find the man who will rape her at her bedside.

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