Reddit reviews Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

Personally, 'credible' requires any amount of evidence beyond he said/she said. Pictures, DNA samples, old journal entries even (from the time when the event occurred and not therapist notes from 30 years later)... Eyewitness testimony is insanely bad. Most people aren't great at remembering faces two days after an event, much less decades later, and trauma-memory tends to be even worse. Picking Cotton is a good, readable book-length example of eyewitness gone wrong.

I think the statue of limitations (not applicable to the Kavanaugh situation, I know, but as long as I'm commenting already...) really needs to be cut down. Respecting baseless accusations that are later found to be hogwash casts an unfortunate shadow on legitimate cases.

Maybe one evidence-free accusation that is within the universe of probability is sufficient for disqualifying a person from the Supreme Court, and that all the Justices need to be completely Teflon-coated saints. Until we start hatching them from pods, however, the standard needs to be just a little lower.

I don't have strong feelings about Kavanaugh being a good/bad Justice or a good/bad person; I do have strong feelings about the standard of evidence and people treating accusations like Gospel.

The book: https://www.amazon.com/Picking-Cotton-Memoir-Injustice-Redemption/dp/0312599536

Picking Cotton A sad, but ultimately heartwarming story of false rape accusation. Just read it and really enjoyed it.

> This is a particular case where some dude was sent to jail for life (life ruined btw) for a crime he didn't commit because

Picking Cotton is a really good book about another similar case. A man called Ronald Cotton was sent to prison for raping a woman who was 100% sure he was the man who did it, even specifically tried to sear the rapist's face into her memory during the rape so she'd be able to identify him later. Only to misidentify Cotton and have the actual criminal tied to other similar cases in the area confess to her case as well later on. She went on to apologize to Cotton, they became friends and do speaking tours about the experience together.

Picking Cotton. A must read. Should be required in high school.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0312599536/ref=redir_mdp_mobile

OP, click this link to learn a bit about eye witness testimony.

If you want a more in depth case study, pick up a copy of Picking Cotton. Hell, if you want, I'll buy you a copy.