340.092 (Law – Biography); 365.7 (Prisoners – Education

  • From Bank Robber to Law Professor: The Unlikely Redemption of Shon Hopwood

    In what legal scholars are calling one of the most remarkable redemption stories in modern American jurisprudence, a convicted bank robber who taught himself law while serving a 12-year federal prison sentence has become a professor at one of the nation’s premier law schools. Shon Hopwood, now a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, first…