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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Crown, 2012
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- Titel
- Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption
- Autor
- Shon Hopwood; Dennis Burke
- Verlag
- Crown
- Veröffentlichungsjahr
- 2012
- Zustand
- Very Good
- Schutzumschlag
- No Jacket
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 0307887839
- ISBN-13
- 9780307887832
- Artikelgewicht
- 1,16 Pfund
Law Man is an improbable-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 a local church. Few who knew him as a friendly teen would have imagined that, shortly after returning home from the Navy, hed be adrift with few prospects and plotting to rob a bank. But rob he did, committing five heists before being apprehended.
Only twenty three and potentially facing twelve years in Illinois Pekin Federal Prison, Shon feared his life was already over. Hed shamed himself and his loving family and friends, and a part of him wanted to die. He wasnt sure at first if hed 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 hed thought too beautiful to ever pay him notice and, most crucially, he secured a job in the prison law library.
It was an assignment that would prove his salvation.
Poring over the librarys 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.
By the time Shon walked out of Pekin Prison hed 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.
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.
Shon Hopwood was a good kid from a good Nebraskan family, a small-town basketball star whose parents had started a local church. Few who knew him as a friendly teen would have imagined that, shortly after returning home from the Navy, hed be adrift with few prospects and plotting to rob a bank. But rob he did, committing five heists before being apprehended.
Only twenty three and potentially facing twelve years in Illinois Pekin Federal Prison, Shon feared his life was already over. Hed shamed himself and his loving family and friends, and a part of him wanted to die. He wasnt sure at first if hed 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 hed thought too beautiful to ever pay him notice and, most crucially, he secured a job in the prison law library.
It was an assignment that would prove his salvation.
Poring over the librarys 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.
By the time Shon walked out of Pekin Prison hed 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.
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.
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SHON HOPWOOD found love, a professional calling, and redemption while in prison. He now lives in Seattle with his wife and two children and attends law school. DENNIS BURKE cowrote the bestsellingThe Translator.
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