the law

Ex-Teacher At Center Of Rape Sentencing Controversy Gets 10 Years In Jail

7:20pm September 26, 2014

by Eyder Peralta

Stacey Dean Rambold, 55, had been sentenced to 30 days for having sex with one of his students. The Montana Supreme Court overturned that sentence and a new judge handed down a 10-year sentence.

After serving almost 11 years in federal prison for bank robbery, Shon Hopwood is a law student at the University of Washington. He's landed a prestigious law clerk's position with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

National

The Incredible Case Of The Bank Robber Who's Now A Law Clerk

2:03pm October 26, 2013

by Mark Memmott

Shon Hopwood was in prison for more than a decade. There, the bank robber became a jailhouse lawyer who got a fellow prisoner's case heard before the Supreme Court. Now a law student, he'll be a clerk at one of the nation's most prestigious courts. The judge who put him in prison is stunned.

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