In 2010, I was a college student at a small public university in North Louisiana. When I was in college, I knew I wanted to go to law school someday to become a criminal defense trial lawyer. I had the opportunity that summer to go down to New Orleans for a 3-month internship with the Innocence Project New Orleans, which is part of a network of legal organizations that work to free men and women who have been convicted of crimes they did not commit.

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