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A Case of Mistaken Eyewitness Testimony, Ronald Cotton
Ronald Cotton was a victim of being wrongly identified in an eyewitness testimony. In July 1984, a man broke into Jennifer Thompson-Cannino's, 22 years old house. Whoever this man was sexually assaulted her, but Jennifer Thompson-Cannino was smart and did what she could to stay alive and remember all the features of this man to make sure he will be charged for his actions. Later on in the same night, he repeated this actions to another female in the same apartment complex. So Jennifer Thompson-Cannino went to the police and told them everything.
The police then showed her all suspects in a photo line up. She picked Ronald Cotton off the bat. Then they had showed her the suspects in real

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