Ten years ago, Chris Ochoa was contemplating suicide in a Texas prison cell, serving a life sentence for a rape and murder he confessed to, but did not commit. Today, the 39-year-old Ochoa is free, exonerated and about to embark on his first career.
When he gets his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School on Friday, after giving one of the commencement speeches, Ochoa will become only the second man in America to be freed from prison by DNA evidence who went on to earn a law degree.