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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…
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From a $10 Check to a Law Degree: How Calvin Duncan Turned a Wrongful Conviction Into a Legal Legacy
When Calvin Duncan walked out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in 2011 after nearly three decades behind bars for a crime he did not commit, the state handed him a $10 release check. That was all. No reparations. No apology beyond a judge’s words. But for Duncan, now 62, freedom was only the beginning of…
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