As a student at the University of Baltimore School of Law, more than a decade ago, Zarena Sita dreamed of joining the Innocence Project.
When she didn’t get an internship at the nonprofit, thinking she’d lost the opportunity to fight wrongful convictions, she said, “My adviser said, ‘Why not prevent them from happening in the first place?’”
Sita got an internship with the prosecutor’s office in her native Montgomery County and never looked back. After finishing school, she joined the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office where, over the past 10 years, she went from prosecuting traffic offenses to some of the county’s most high-profile cases, like the Cockeysville man convicted of shooting two police officers.
Being a prosecutor in the office’s Child Abuse and Sex Offense Division “really affords me the opportunity to be a voice for children and victims of sex offense and physical child abuse,” Sita said. “I certainly like that I get to be that person for them.”
