On July 1984 a man broke the house of Jennifer Thompson, took things from her home and sexually assaulted her. Jennifer went to the police and told her story; the police showed her a photo line up of possible offenders. Out of the group, Jennifer picked a man named Ronald cotton, and again when looking at the psychical line choose Ronald cotton. He was found guilty and sentenced a lot life and fifty years in jail. After while cotton hear talk of a new prisoner (bobby pool) talking about how her raped this girl Jennifer, but when he was given a second trial, Jennifer still said the he was the rapist even though, she was looking in to the eyes of her real rapist, bobby pool.
When Jennifer first went to the police, they worked and a sketch up of what the offender might look like. While Ronald cotton did some what resemble the sketch up there were small differences. While if she had looked at the picture one by one she may have realized the differences between the sketch and cotton, but since booby pool was not in the original line up, Jennifer’s memory/ eye changed to fit the closest possible person.
After living in jail for many years, Ronald cotton asked for a DNA test, the test showed that he was innocent and that the real rapist was bobby pool. This was a huge shock to Jennifer; at first she had truly believed that the rapist was Ronald cotton, now she works with cotton make sure mistakes like that are made. The case of Ronald cotton was not the one of it’s kind.
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