| 词条 | Shon Hopwood |
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|birth_name = Shon Robert Hopwood |image = Shon Hopwood.jpg |image_size = 300px |caption = Hopwood in 2012 |alt = |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1975|6|11}} |birth_place = David City, Nebraska, U.S. |residence = Brookland, Washington, D.C., U.S. Geneva, Nebraska, U.S. |education = Bellevue University (B.S.) University of Washington (J.D.) Georgetown University (LL.M.) |occupation = Appellate Lawyer at Georgetown University Law Center |known_for = |notable_works = Petition for Writ of Certiorari in Fellers v. United States; Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption |spouse = |partner = |children = |parents = |website = ShonHopwood.com }}Shon Robert Hopwood (born June 11, 1975) is an American convicted felon, 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. 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.[1] Early lifeHopwood is the son of Mark Robert Hopwood and Becky Richards who raised him in a Christian home.[2] He grew up in David City, Nebraska, approximately an hour’s drive northwest of Lincoln, Nebraska.[2] Hopwood is the eldest of five siblings.[3] Hopwood excelled on standardized tests.[3] He was a high school basketball standout, earning himself a scholarship to Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska.[2] After Hopwood realized he was a mediocre talent in basketball, he became disillusioned and did not go to classes.[3][2] After leaving school, Hopwood joined the United States Navy. He was stationed in the Persian Gulf.[3] While in the Navy, he guarded warships with shoulder-mounted Stinger missiles.[3] He almost died from acute pancreatitis in a Bahrain hospital, and was discharged from the Navy.[3] Bank robberyHopwood pled guilty on October 28, 1998, to robbing several banks in Nebraska.[4] United States District Judge Richard Kopf sentenced Hopwood to 12 years, three months in prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered $134,544 in restitution.[4] Kopf was stunned by Hopwood's later transformation and said, "my gut told me that [he] was a punk — all mouth, and very little else. My viscera was wrong." In Kopf's own opinion, "Hopwood proves that my sentencing instincts suck."[5] Jailhouse lawyerHopwood served his prison sentence at Federal Correctional Institution, Pekin.[15] While at Pekin, he spent five weeks in solitary confinement, and criticized the practice once he got out.[15] He prepared his first petition for certiorari for a fellow inmate on a prison typewriter in 2002.[1] Since Hopwood was not a lawyer, the only name on the brief was that of the other prisoner, John Fellers.[1] Once the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, he worked with Seth Waxman, a former United States Solicitor General, in preparing the case.[1] Waxman stated that the petition for writ of certiorari was probably one of the best he had ever seen.[1] The court received 7,209 petitions that year from prisoners and others too poor to pay the filing fee, and it agreed to hear just eight of them.[1] One was Fellers v. United States.[1] The Court, in a 9-0 decision, found that police had acted unconstitutionally in questioning Fellers, who had been convicted of a drug conspiracy. 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.[1] Hopwood has also helped inmates from Indiana, Michigan and Nebraska get sentence reductions of 3 to 10 years from lower courts.[1] He also won honorable mention in the PEN American Center 2008 Prison Writing contest.[6][7] Hopwood was released from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons on April 9, 2009.[8] In 2010, he was working at Cockle Printing in Omaha, Nebraska, a leading printer of Supreme Court briefs.[1] Law school and legal careerHopwood holds a B.S. degree from Bellevue University in Bellevue, Nebraska and a J.D. degree from the University of Washington School of Law, where he was a Gates Public Service Law Scholar.[9][10] He accepted an offer to spend a year working as a law clerk for Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after he graduated from law school.[11] 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.[10][12] His ability to become of a member of the Washington State Bar Association was named one of the 14 memorable National Law Journal Supreme Court of the United States stories of 2014.[13] In 2015, Hopwood became a licensed lawyer in the state of Washington.[14] In 2015, Hopwood accepted a position as a graduate teaching fellow in Georgetown University Law Center's Appellate Litigation Clinic, where he was pursuing an LL.M. degree.[15] In 2017, Hopwood became a professor of law at Georgetown.[16][17] Writings and viewsHopwood's memoir, Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption,[18] co-written with Dennis Burke, was published in August 2012. In the memoir, Hopwood details both his life as a jailhouse lawyer and his romance with his wife, Ann Marie Hopwood, who Hopwood wrote during eight years of his imprisonment. Law Man received critical acclaim from a number of book reviewers.[19][20][21] Hopwood is a criminal justice advocate, and he has written about the need for federal sentencing and prison reform.[22][23] Hopwood told an ACLU event that his home state of Nebraska should reform sentencing guidelines for prisoners, keep good time credits and not build a new prison.[24] Contributions to scholarly journals
In the mediaHopwood has been profiled by the New York Times, NPR, and other media. He was featured on a 60 Minutes segment in 2017, interviewed by Steve Kroft.[31] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{citation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/us/09bar.html|newspaper=New York Times|date=February 8, 2010|title=A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer | first=Adam | last=Liptak | accessdate=May 23, 2010}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Hopwood, Shon}}2. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://fremonttribune.com/news/local/hopwood-to-speak-at-annual-prayer-breakfast/article_8908614c-3c12-57b7-84c4-187c9f8976cf.html|title=Hopwood to speak at annual prayer breakfast|author=Tammy Real-McKeighan/News Editor|work=Fremont Tribune}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web|url=http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/949021-129/hopwood-says-law-cutline-prison-court|title=Seattle News and Events - Shon Hopwood’s Journey From the Big House to|work=Seattle Weekly}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.theindependent.com/news/two-men-sentenced-to-prison-for-bank-robberies/article_1229d4c9-fcbc-53ae-87a4-1f619224d8be.html|title=Two men sentenced to prison for bank robberies|work=The Grand Island Independent}} 5. ^https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/10/219295368/the-incredible-case-of-the-bank-robber-whos-now-a-law-clerk 6. ^{{citation|url=http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2512/prmID/1622|title=The News|author=Shon Hopwood|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819091011/http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2512/prmID/1622|archivedate=2010-08-19|df=}} 7. ^{{citation|url=http://www.pen.org/author.php/prmAID/535/prmID/1622|title=Shon Hopwood}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/|title=Inmate Locator|publisher=}} 9. ^{{cite news|title=Former Robber in 2nd year at UW law school |url=http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019281806_hopwood28m.html |newspaper=Seattle Times |first=Katherine |last=Long |date=September 27, 2012}} 10. ^1 {{cite news |last1=Mauro |first1=Tony |title=From Felony Conviction to Bar Exam |url=http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202672308742/From-Felony-Conviction-to-Bar-Exam |accessdate=December 5, 2014 |work=National Law Journal |date=October 6, 2014}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2013/08/shon-hopwoods-unique-career-in-the-law-has-taken-a-dramatic-new-turn-the-onetime-jailhouse-lawyer-who-served-time-in-federal.html|title=Unusual Law Clerk Hire for D.C. Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown - The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times|publisher=}} 12. ^In re Hopwood, no. 201,345-7, (Wash. Sup. Ct. Sep. 4, 2014) 13. ^{{cite web|last1=Mauro|first1=Tony|title=14 Memorable NLJ Supreme Court Stories of 2014|url=http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimes/id=1202713301101/14-Memorable-NLJ-Supreme-Court-Stories-of-2014?cmp=share_twitter|website=nationallawjournal.com|accessdate=2 January 2015}} 14. ^{{cite web|title=Lawyer Search|url=https://www.mywsba.org/lawyerdirectory.aspx|publisher=Washington State Bar Association|accessdate=3 August 2015}} 15. ^{{cite web|last1=Santos|first1=Michael|title=The inspiring story of an ex-bank robber who turned into America's best jailhouse lawyer|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/the-inspiring-story-of-an-ex-bank-robber-who-turned-into-americas-best-jailhouse-lawyer-2015-4#ixzz3hm5NrXCk|publisher=Business Insider|accessdate=3 August 2015}} 16. ^{{cite web|last1=Long|first1=Katherine|title=Former bank robber helped by Gates fund now professor at Georgetown Law School|url=http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/former-bank-robber-helped-by-gates-fund-now-professor-at-georgetown-law-school/|accessdate=8 April 2017}} 17. ^{{cite web|last1=Svriuga|first1=Susan|title=He robbed banks and went to prison. His time there put him on track for a new job: Georgetown law professor.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/04/21/bank-robber-turned-georgetown-law-professor-is-just-getting-started-on-his-goals/|publisher=Washington Post|accessdate=25 April 2017}} 18. ^{{cite book |last1=Hopwood |first1=Shon |last2=Burke |first2=Dennis Michael |title=Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption |year=2012 |publisher=Crown |isbn=9780307887832 |oclc=761846778}} 19. ^{{citation|url=http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/shon-hopwood/law-man/|date=July 12, 2012|title=KIRKUS REVIEW: LAW MAN - My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption}} 20. ^{{citation|url=http://bookpage.com/review/law-man/beating-the-system|date=August 2012|title=Beating the System | work=BookPage | first=Heather | last=Seggel }} 21. ^{{citation|url=http://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=5461224|date=June 14, 2010|title=Law Man | work=Booklist Online | first=David| last=Pitt }} 22. ^{{cite news|title=I Got a Second Chance After Robbing Banks-and Others Should, Too |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/i-got-a-second-chance-after-robbing-banks-and-others-should-too/266567/ |newspaper=the Atlantic |first=Shon |last=Hopwood |date=December 21, 2012}} 23. ^{{cite news|title=Giving Prisoners a Second Chance Means Removing the Barriers to Reentry |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shon-hopwood/giving-prisoners-a-second_b_1813087.html |newspaper=Huffington Post |first=Shon |last=Hopwood |date=August 20, 2012}} 24. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://journalstar.com/news/local/former-prisoner-pushes-prison-reform/article_f8f32c1e-6657-5919-9b0f-46dd640cf226.html|title=Former prisoner pushes prison reform|author=RILEY JOHNSON / Lincoln Journal Star|work=JournalStar.com}} 25. ^{{Cite journal|last=Hopwood|first=Shon|date=2016-09-14|title=Clarity in Criminal Law|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2838871|location=Rochester, NY}} 26. ^{{Cite journal|last=Blake|first=William|last2=Hacker|first2=Hans|last3=Hopwood|first3=Shon|date=2015-08-13|title=Seasonal Affective Disorder: Clerk Training and the Success of Supreme Court Certiorari Petitions|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2644009|location=Rochester, NY}} 27. ^https://digital.law.washington.edu/dspace-law/bitstream/handle/1773.1/1393/89WLR0709.pdf?sequence=1 28. ^{{cite web|url=https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=43+Geo.+L.J.+Ann.+Rev.+Crim.+Proc.+iii&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=a2fa3388db1008995dc27ad33172eec1|title=PREFACE: FAILING TO FIX SENTENCING MISTAKES: HOW THE SYSTEM OFMASS INCARCERATION MAY HAVE HARDENED THE HEARTS OF THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY|publisher=}} 29. ^http://fordhamlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/Vol_80/Hopwood_December.pdf 30. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nacdl.org/Champion.aspx?id=16255|title=Champion - From a Prison Law Library to the New York Times|publisher=}} 31. ^{{cite web |last1=Kroft |first1=Steve |title=Meet a convicted felon who became a Georgetown law professor |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-meet-a-convicted-felon-who-became-a-georgetown-law-professor/ |website=CBS News |accessdate=9 July 2018}} 23 : American bank robbers|American bloggers|Living people|1975 births|American male writers|American legal scholars|American legal writers|American memoirists|Prison reformers|Lawyers from Washington, D.C.|Criminal defense lawyers|Public defenders|Writers from Washington, D.C.|Writers from Nebraska|University of Washington School of Law alumni|Washington (state) lawyers|People from David City, Nebraska|Bellevue University alumni|American male essayists|60 Minutes|Georgetown University Law Center faculty|21st-century American essayists|American male bloggers |
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