"Picking Cotton" is an extraordinary true story, based on lives the two people. : Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, and Ronald Cotton. At the age of twenty-three, Jennifer gowenet through a terrible ordeal in 1984,. sSomeone broken into her apartment in Burlington, North Carolina and raped her. Ronald Cotton was the man that Jennifer accused of the crime. Shortly after the violation of Jennifer Thompson, she was soon facing the law enforcement officer and a person of interest. The officials in charge insisted that this was the person responsible for the crime, and coerced Jennifer Thompson to identify him in the lineup. With the pressure of the experience, and now dealing with putting a person in prison, she made the decision to identify Ronald Cotton as her attacker. This event has changed the lives of both individuals forever.