Good Law | Bad Law

From jailhouse lawyer to law professor and criminal justice reform advocate . . .   Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Shon Hopwood, an attorney and law professor at Georgetown Law, to discuss his remarkable life story and how it brought him to understand the need for profound reform in our criminal justice system.  After Shon’s story was featured on a recent episode of “60 Minutes,” he graciously agreed to come on Good Law Bad Law to share his story and the reforms he believes are so urgently needed.   Shon served 11 years in federal prison for a series of armed bank robberies he committed in his early 20s. After securing a job in the prison law library, Shon discovered that he had quite the knack for the law and legal thinking.  After failing to get his own sentence reduced, he turned to helping other inmates with their cases.  Against all the odds, Shon wrote a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court asking for review of a fellow in