Mar 10, 2009 · In 1984, Jennifer Thompson was 22 and a student at Elon College in North Carolina when a man broke into her house during the night and raped her.

Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. Wearing only a blanket, she escaped and told police she was certain she could identify the man who had been inches from her face.

In July 1984, an assailant broke into Jennifer Thompson-Cannino’s apartment and sexually assaulted her. Later that night, the assailant broke into another apartment and sexually assaulted a second woman.

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Jennifer Thompson may refer to: Jennifer Thompson (athlete), New Zealand discus thrower; Jennifer Laura Thompson (born 1969), American stage actress; Jenny Thompson (born 1973), American swimmer; Jennifer Thompson, a critic of the reliability of eyewitness testimony following the exoneration of Ronald Cotton from her rape accusation

Oct 30, 2015 · In 1985, a young white woman named Jennifer Thompson told a North Carolina courtroom that the man on trial, Ronald Cotton, a black restaurant dishwasher, had broken into her apartment and raped her at knifepoint the year before.

Jennifer Thompson founded Healing Justice based on her personal experience as a crime survivor whose case resulted in a DNA-based exoneration a decade after the original trial and conviction. Jennifer became a pioneer of restorative justice in these cases through building a friendship with the innocent man wrongly convicted in her case.

The rape of Jennifer Thompson was horrific. But police procedures at the time, in 1984, caused her to accuse the wrong man. When he was finally exonerated by DNA, Jennifer didn’t just apologize.

Dec 21, 2015 · Cotton was exonerated based on DNA evidence that showed that a man named Bobby Poole had raped Jennifer Thompson. In a hearing that occurred after Cotton’s trial, Thompson was shown a picture...

He had been smoking cigarettes in my apartment, and he was stealing my money. He was going through my cabinets. And so by the time the rape actually occurred, he knew my name was Jennifer.