and while most of us are at home, alissa bjerkhoel is at the office. >> my motto is like, i'm never going to give up. i will find a way. >> reporter: an attorney with the california innocence project, bjerkhoel is so devoted to crusading for her clients' release from prison, that their cases literally move her to tears. >> how do you tell someone that even with that evidence of innocence, they're going to die in prison? >> reporter: in this case, that me california emergency room nurse. a mother of two little ones. found guilty of savagely killing her live-in boyfriend 13 years ago. >> if it can happen to someone like kim, who is a nurse in the community, who is a mother, who's just your average american family, it can happen to any one of us, and that's what's scary. >> reporter: nurse, mom, daughter. that's the portrait of kim long her attorneys want you to have, biker chick and brutally violent. >> i'm not that person. i'm not a mean, malicious person. >> reporter: so who's the real kim? she agreed to talk to us, so tonight you can form your own opinion. now, it's about being natural a