03731cam a2200337 4500 591556886 TxAuBib 20220525120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307887856 0307887855 c129284f-887b-4239-9150-ca21525f3f27 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 773351 OverDrive (Product ID) 210084 210084 TxAuBib Hopwood, Shon. Law Man [Libby] : My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption. Crown/Archetype, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6211kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b><i>Law Man</i> 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.</b><br /> <br /> 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, he'd be adrift with few prospects and plotting to rob a bank. But rob he did, committing five heists before being apprehended.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> It was an assignment that would prove his salvation.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> A story that mixes moments of high-adrenaline with others of deep poignancy, <i>Law Man</i> is a powerful reminder that even the worst mistakes can be redeemed through faith, hard work and the love and support of others.<br /> <br /> <i>From the Hardcover edition.</i></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-24 20:00:02. Burke, Dennis. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C12/928/4F/LawManMyStoryofRobbingBanksWinningSup9780307887856.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C129284F-887B-4239-9150-CA21525F3F27&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C12/928/4F/LawManMyStoryofRobbingBanksWinningSup9780307887856.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C129284F-887B-4239-9150-CA21525F3F27&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)