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Wrongful conviction leads Ochoa to law degree

Prison is the last place a grown man wants to be seen crying. So Christopher Ochoa often wept alone in his cell, asking God how this could have happened to him.

Ochoa, 39, missed the 1990s while spending more than a decade in prison as punishment for a brutal rape and murder he didn’t commit.

Ochoa likely will cry publicly next month when he is handed his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. The commencement address he gives won’t intimidate him because he has grown accustomed to giving speeches.