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Jun 29, 2021

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Shon Hopwood spent 10 years in Federal prison for a series of bank robberies. While he was a jailhouse lawyer in prison, he did something very few practicing attorneys in the free world ever did: he persuaded the US Supreme Court to accept an appeal — twice!

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