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60 minutes. Redemption / produced by Maria Gavrilovic.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hopwood, Shon.
- Ex-convicts--United States--Interviews.
- Ex-convicts.
- Jailhouse lawyers--United States--Interviews.
- Jailhouse lawyers.
- Genre:
- Television news programs.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (14 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Sixty minutes
- Redemption
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2017.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- A profile interview of Shon Hopwood, a convicted felon who became a Georgetown University Law Center professor. Sentenced prison for bank robbery in 1999 at age 23, Hopwood became a jailhouse lawyer and found success after a case he filed for a fellow inmate for appeal was heard by the Supreme Court. Includes interviews with: Seth Waxman, appellate lawyer and former US solicitor general; Andy Cockle and Trish Billotte, owners of Cockle Legal Printing; Professor Steven Goldblatt, faculty director of Supreme Court Institute, Georgetown Law; Ann Marie Metzner, Hopwood's wife.
- Participant:
- Reporter, Steve Kroft ; interviewee, Shon Hopwood.
- Notes:
- This broadcast from July 21, 2019; original segment first broadcast on October 15, 2017.
- Title from resource description page (viewed February 29, 2024).
- OCLC:
- 1425511243
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