Mistaken Identity Case Summary

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A Case of Mistaken Identity
In July of 1984 in the state of California, a woman named Jennifer Thompson she was raped in her apartment after someone broke in, but she was not the only one another woman was raped that same night. Ronald was a man accused of committing those crimes. It was then up to the jury to decide whether Ronald Cotton was the man who committed those crimes.
In the end, Ronald Cotton was a man wrongly convicted of two counts of rape and burglary. He served over ten years for a crime he did not commit. During the trial, evidence was brought up against the defendant Ronald Cotton. Which included a photo identification, made by Jennifer Thompson. Along with a line of which

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