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Free Thoughts, Ep. 191: Lessons from a Bank-Robbing Law Professor (with Shon Hopwood)

1,110 views · Published 16 June 2017 · 46:22 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2017 · News & Politics

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Shon Hopwood joins us this week to tell about his journey from bank robber to federal prisoner to U.S. Supreme Court practicioner and Georgetown law professor.

What’s it like in federal prison? How did Hopwood become a jailhouse lawyer? If people do in fact “age out” of criminal activity, then what should our prison system look like?

Show Notes and Further Reading

Hopwood’s book is Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption (2012).
https://www.amazon.com/Law-Man-Robbing-Winning-Redemption/dp/0307887839/

Here’s the New York Times article by Adam Liptak that Hopwood mentions, “A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/us/09bar.html

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