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Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption
Law Man My Story of Robbing Banks Winning Supreme Court Cases and Finding Redemption Author:Shon Hopwood, Dennis Burke Law Man is an improbablee-but-true memoir of redemption -- the story of a young bank robber who became the greatest jailhouse lawyer in American history, and who changed not just his own life, but the lives of everyone around him. — � — Shon Hopwood was a good kid from a good Nebraskan family, a small-town basketball star whose parents had started... more » a local church. Few who knew him as a friendly teen would have imagined that, shortly after returning home from the Navy, he?d be adrift with few prospects and plotting to rob a bank.� But rob he did, committing five heists before being apprehended.
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Only twenty three and potentially facing twelve years in Illinois? Pekin Federal Prison, Shon feared his life was already over. He?d shamed himself and his loving family and friends, and a part of him wanted to die.� He wasn?t sure at first if he?d survive the prison gangs, but slowly glimmers of hope appeared.� He earned some respect on the prison basketball court, received a steady flow of letters from hometown well wishers, including a note from a special girl whom he?d thought too beautiful to ever pay him notice ? and, most crucially, he secured a job in the prison law library.
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It was an assignment that would prove his salvation.
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Poring over the library?s thick legal volumes, Shon discovered that he had a knack for the law, and he soon became the go-to guy for inmates seeking help. Then came a request to write a complex petition to the Supreme Court ? a high-wire act of jailhouse lawyering that had never before met with success.�
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By the time Shon walked out of Pekin Prison he?d pulled off a series of legal miracles, earned the undying gratitude of numerous inmates, won the woman of his dreams, and built a new life for himself far greater than anything he could have imagined.
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A story that mixes moments of high-adrenaline with others of deep poignancy, Law Man is a powerful reminder that even the worst mistakes can be redeemed through faith, hard work and the love and support of others.« less