It wasn’t until he was thrown into prison for armed robbery that Shon R. Hopwood found his calling in life. While serving a 10-year sentence for holding up banks in rural Nebraska, Johnson spent time in the prison law library, where he studied procedures for filing appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. His very first petition for certiorari helped a fellow inmate, John Fellers, get his case heard by the high court, something only a handful of appeals receive out of thousands of requests each year.