{"id":9664,"date":"2023-10-23T15:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T22:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=9664"},"modified":"2023-10-23T15:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T22:32:54","slug":"another-poster-boy-for-second-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=9664","title":{"rendered":"Another Poster Boy For Second Chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As noted in this earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=8917#more-8917\">post<\/a>, when criminal justice reformers celebrate the early release of serious criminals it doesn&#8217;t always work out well.\u00a0\u00a0 Today the staff at Liberty Unyielding offer up another <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/10\/23\/poster-child-for-criminal-justice-reform-arrested-for-beating-his-wife\/\">example<\/a>.\u00a0 This time the case involves a former bank robber who became a Georgetown law professor.\u00a0 In the late 1990s Shon Hopwood was sentenced to 12 years in prison following a series of bank robberies that he committed in small town Nebraska.\u00a0 Eleven years later, Hopwood was released after having earned a law degree and, as a jailhouse lawyer, twice got petitions on behalf of fellow inmates accepted for review in the U.S. Supreme Court.\u00a0 Once free, Hopwood won a clerkship with the DC Circuit, and later took a professorship at Georgetown Law.\u00a0 He also played a role in passing the federal sentencing reform &#8220;First Step Act.&#8221;\u00a0 What a remarkable &#8220;second chance&#8221; success story.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Criminal justice reformers such as Soros who bankrolled &#8220;Law Enforcement Action Partnership&#8221; claim that criminals age out of crime by their late 30s and can be safely released after serving 10 to 15 years in prison.\u00a0 This is also the position of progressive district attorneys including LA&#8217;s George Gascon and Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner.<\/p>\n<p>Last month Hopwood was arrested for beating his wife Anne Marie on numerous occasions and inflicting injuries that required treatment at a hospital. The article continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hopwood pleaded not guilty at an arraignment on Oct. 3 and has been released with monitoring by pretrial services. He is under a temporary protection order barring him from being within 100 yards of Anne Marie\u2026.In a court affidavit posted online by the Mail, Anne Marie alleged several incidents of abuse and painted a picture of Hopwood as a controlling, temperamental and violent individual.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest incident, Hopwood allegedly began fighting with his wife at a baseball game and later threw her phone out of the car window, according to the affidavit. At home, Hopwood allegedly shoved his wife, leading to a broken tooth and finger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI received bruises all over my body,\u201d Anne Marie said in her affidavit. When D.C. caseworkers visited their home days later, she said, \u201cShon directed me to stay in the basement with the door locked. When the police came, he came down to the basement and again told me not to come out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A police officer who responded to a 911 call told the Mail he had a gut feeling that Hopwood was lying when he told him that his wife was out of town. \u201cI am more than sure if I did not stay and find Ann Marie, she would not be with us today,\u201d said Officer JP Mcardle, according to the Mail\u2026Hopwood\u2019s dramatic journey from convicted felon to law professor captivated the legal world and received extensive news coverage from various media outlets, including a 2019 segment on \u201c60 Minutes\u201d by Steve Kroft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article provides several examples demonstrating the fallacy of the &#8220;aging out&#8221; claim.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12637031\/Bank-robber-Georgetown-law-professor-Shon-Hopwood-Tiffany-Trump-abuse.html\">notes<\/a>, Hopwood \u201cwas profiled by Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes as a stellar example of how some criminals deserve a second chance.\u201d But even this\u00a0 supposedly \u201cstellar\u201d example of a reformed inmate appears to pose a danger to those around him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted in this earlier post, when criminal justice reformers celebrate the early release of serious criminals it doesn&#8217;t always work out well.\u00a0\u00a0 Today the staff at Liberty Unyielding offer up another example.\u00a0 This time the case involves a former bank robber who became a Georgetown law professor.\u00a0 In the late 1990s Shon Hopwood was sentenced to 12 years in prison following a series of bank robberies that he committed in small town Nebraska.\u00a0 Eleven years later, Hopwood was released after having earned a law degree and, as a jailhouse lawyer, twice got petitions on behalf of fellow inmates accepted for review in the U.S. Supreme Court.\u00a0 Once free, Hopwood won a clerkship with the DC Circuit, and later took a professorship at Georgetown Law.\u00a0 He also played a role in passing the federal sentencing reform &#8220;First Step Act.&#8221;\u00a0 What a remarkable &#8220;second chance&#8221; 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