It was probably the first time a UW Law School graduation ceremony attracted national media attention, including ABC News and Univision, but this is also the first time an exonerated felon convicted of murder left prison and went on to graduate from the law school that helped him do it.
Christopher Ochoa was convicted of raping and murdering a Pizza Hut employee in Auston, Texas. In 2001, he was freed from prison, his life sentence overturned after the UW Innocence Project and new DNA tests helped prove he was wrongfully convicted.