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What led you to this point? What led you to become a lawyer? What led you to become a

prosecutor and what's leading you to become a lawyer, what led you to become a prosecutor, and what's leading you to become a judge?

For me, when I was seven, I was introduced to the criminal justice system.

My father was murdered, like I said, and I vividly to this day, soon remember my mother coming in and telling me that daddy was gone.

And I remember even going through that process,

the person who killed my father, the first person who murdered him, was never arrested, nothing ever happened to him.

So I remember literally crying on my mother's lap and asking her why.

Like why was this man allowed?

Because my mother always taught me, like, you know,

be good, do good things, etc.

And if you're not going to do good things,

if you're not going to be good, then you'll get punished.

And so it was this space of like, well, why is he not being punished

for taking him with my daddy?

And in that space I just remember thinking like no other little seven year old should feel this way.

Like no seven year olds should feel this way.

And so I always wanted to be the voice of people.

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