In the summer of 1992, after finally being accepted in to The Kansas Defender Project - one of the many legal clinics at the University of Kansas School of Law - I traveled to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary a couple of times a week to visit clients. I had three clients that summer, but I only visited two - one was a bank robber and the other was a hitman. It was my junior year of law school. While my work was to an extent supervised by attorneys, I was for the most part on my own.
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