Finding the strength to fight

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But when I

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continued to see that my mother and my

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aunts weren't broken and they were

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fighting for my innocence, I decided

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that if I didn't have the energy to

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fight for myself, I most certainly could

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find the energy to fight for

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them. I started to try to grasp the law.

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I would get law books, law journals, and

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read about attorneys who were litigating

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cases in the state of Wisconsin. So, I

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reached out to the Innocence Project,

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the organization that advocates and

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litigates on behalf of the wrongfully

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convicted. Ultimately, they accepted my

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case. The court unanimously decided to

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overturn my conviction. I ended up

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enrolling in a 4-year college where I

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studied criminal justice. After

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graduating, I obtained my law degree and

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I became an attorney.

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I had the opportunity to exonerate

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another person and it was special to me

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because it was in the same state in

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which I was wrongfully

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convicted. I've now open my own law

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practice and I think that me coming from

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a place like the criminal justice

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system, being wronged, hearing the

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stories and getting to know other men

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who have been wronged, what better

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advocate could they have but myself? I

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strongly feel like this happened to me

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for a reason. It was necessary to

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encourage the greatness out of me.

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