NEW YORK,NY, January 5,2010. St.Martins Press has announced the release of the paperback edition ofPicking Cotton, a remarkable true story of what novelist John Grisham calls an account of violence, rage, redemption(救赎),and, ultimately forgiveness.
The story began in 1987, in Burlington, NorthCarolina, with the rape of a young while college student named JenniferThompson. During her ordeal, Thompson swore to herself that she would neverforget the face of her rapist, a man who climbed through the window of herapartment and assaulted her brutally.____F____(46)When the police asked her ifshe could identify the assilant(袭击者)from a book of mugshots, she picked one that she was sure was correct, and later she identifiedthe same man in a lineup.
Based on her convincing eye withnesstestimony, a 22-year-old black man named Ronald Cotton was sentenced to prisonfor two life terms. Cottons lawyer appealed thedecision, and by the time of the appeals hearing, evidence had come to lightsuggesting that the real rapist might have been a man who looked very likeCotton, an imprisoned criminal named Bobby Poole.__B____(47)Jennifer Thompsonlooked at both men face to face, and once again said that Ronald Cotton was theone who raped her.
Eleven years later, DNA evidence completelyexonerated(证明清白)Cotton and just as unequivocally(明确地) convicted Poole, who confessed to the crime. _____E___(48) The man I was so sure I had never seen in my life was the man whowas inches from my throat, who raped me, who hurt me, who took my spirit away,who robbed me of my soul, she wrote. And the man I had identified so surely on so many occasions wasabsolutely innocent.
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