Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption - Rilegato

Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer; Cotton, Ronald; Torneo, Erin

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ISBN 10: 0312376537 ISBN 13: 9780312376536

Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 2009

Riassunto

An account for which the authors received 2008's Soros Justice Media Fellowship traces the story of a rape survivor and the man she mistakenly identified as her attacker, describing the unlikely friendship they forged after DNA evidence proved his innocence and their shared subsequent advocacy for judicial reform.

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L'autore:

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.

Product Description:

What happened in this book will change what you think of the criminal justice system in this country. Each of [the authors] tells an extraordinary story about crime . . . but it's their shared spiritual journey toward reconciliation and forgiveness that is even more compelling and profound.--Barry C. Scheck.

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• Editore: St Martins Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0312376537
• ISBN 13: 9780312376536
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 298