Jul 21, 2019 · Shon Hopwood: It is. This is the third bank. The idea was to stick up very small banks in tiny towns like Gresham where there was no …
Jul 08, 2018 · Shon Hopwood: Well, that's because the bank robber's long been dead and gone. Hopwood was born here 42 years ago in the small farming community of David City, Nebraska, surrounded by cornfields ...
Jul 21, 2019 · Meet a convicted felon who became a Georgetown law professor. Shon Hopwood was serving time for armed bank robbery when he discovered he had a brilliant mind for the law. Steve Kroft reports on an ...
Oct 12, 2017 · Steve Kroft profiles Hopwood for the next edition of 60 Minutes, Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT. Law professor Shon Hopwood and 60 Minutes ... for robbing banks. Says Hopwood, "Well ...
Shon Hopwood was serving time for armed bank robbery when he discovered he had a brilliant mind for the law. Steve Kroft reports on an improbable tale of redemption Jul 21, 2019
Meet a convicted felon who became a Georgetown law professor - CBS News. Shon Hopwood was serving time for armed bank robbery when he discovered he had a brilliant mind for the law. Steve Kroft reports on an improbable tale of redemption. Shon Hopwood was serving time for armed bank robbery when he discovered he had a brilliant mind for the law.
A crucial contact was Seth Waxman, a prominent lawyer and former U.S. solicitor general who took the case Hopwood prepared for a fellow prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution in Pekin, Illinois.
When Shon Hopwood discovered he had a brilliant law mind, he was serving a long prison sentence for armed bank robbery. But Hopwood was an exception among the countless "jailhouse lawyers" who study the law after breaking it. He was so good, that a case he prepared was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, an extremely rare feat for any lawyer, never mind one still behind bars. Hopwood has won admirers who helped him earn his degree and enter the law profession. Just recently, he was named to a coveted faculty position as an associate professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Steve Kroft profiles Hopwood for the next edition of 60 Minutes, Sunday, Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT.
Hopwood tells his unlikely story and acknowledges the odds were long, but he had help. "It was people that helped, that went out of their way to provide grace to me ," he tells Kroft. "That made the difference.". Kroft speaks to some of those who championed him.
Hopwood became well-known as a jailhouse lawyer who served time in prison for bank robbery. While in prison, he started spending time in the law library, and became an accomplished United States Supreme Court practitioner by the time he left in 2009.
Petition for writ of certiorari in Fellers v. United States. Shon Robert Hopwood (born June 11, 1975) is an American appellate lawyer and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Hopwood became well-known as a jailhouse lawyer who served time in prison for bank robbery.
On September 4, 2014, the Supreme Court of Washington approved the recommendation made by the Character and Fitness Committee of the Washington State Bar Association, permitting Hopwood to take the Washington bar examination, and to become an attorney if he passed.
Hopwood was released from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons on April 9, 2009.
Hopwood is the son of Robert Mark Hopwood and Becky Richards, who raised him in a Christian home. He grew up in David City, Nebraska, approximately an hour's drive northwest of Lincoln, Nebraska . Hopwood is the eldest of five siblings. Hopwood excelled on standardized tests. He was a high school basketball standout, earning himself a scholarship to Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska. After Hopwood realized he was a mediocre talent in basketball, he became disillusioned and did not go to classes.
Fellers's sentence was ultimately reduced by four years. In 2005, the Supreme Court granted a second cert petition prepared by Hopwood, vacating a lower court decision and sending the case back for a fresh look.