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Personal Narrative: My Goal Of Becoming A Prosecutor

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While my goal of becoming a prosecutor started with high school Mock Trial, I was never naïve enough to believe that a career in law would be as fun and easy as a high school competition. As the end of my high school experience approached, I achieved over a semester of college credits through my AP test scores and began to transition my dream of becoming a prosecutor to a goal, one that I would dedicate my life to achieving.
My journey began with a two-week internship in the Lake County Prosecutor’s Office at the end of my senior year. After all, it was important to make sure that I love the actual job of becoming a prosecutor, and not just the idea of it. I sat in on hearings, reviewed old cases and trials, and even got the privilege of proofreading some of the motions before couriering them to the courthouse. As I had expected from the start, the job of a prosecutor was not always the most glamorous and often consisted of drowning in piles of paperwork. However, the fascinating paperwork and spending more time in courtrooms and judge’s chambers …show more content…

I thought it would be useful to see things from their point of view. This experience taught me more than I expected, such as: how to utilize Westlaw; how attorneys interact with clients, even the ones who hate them; how to strategize for a trial; how to do eleven hearings with eleven clients and one attorney all in one morning; and all of the differences between municipal, common pleas, and juvenile courts..By the time I left, I was doing almost everything the paralegals and law clerks did. I realized that being a public defender was not as bad as I had expected, although I would much rather be a prosecutor. This experience also pushed me to set my sights higher. To make my goal not just to become a prosecutor, but eventually a federal

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