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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 10:57 AM Aug 2020

He got life for stealing hedge clippers. The Louisiana Supreme Court says it's a fair sentence.


Teo Armus 4 hrs ago

The Washington Post

He got life for stealing hedge clippers. The Louisiana Supreme Court says it’s a fair sentence.

More than two decades ago, police in Shreveport, La. stopped Fair Wayne Bryant on the side of the road for allegedly stealing a pair of hedge clippers. His vehicle looked like one that had been used in a recent home burglary, they told the Black 38-year-old moments before arresting him.

Bryant insisted the clippers police found in the van belonged to his wife, but he did make a confession to the officers: After his vehicle had broken down on an unfamiliar road, he had entered a carport in search of a tank of gas.

That disclosure would eventually land Bryant life in prison, a sentence that has now effectively been rubber-stamped by the state’s highest legal authority.

Last week, the Louisiana Supreme Court denied a request from Bryant to hear a review of his life sentence. Six of the seven justices backed the decision, which was first reported by The Lens NOLA, a nonprofit news site based in New Orleans.

More:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/he-got-life-for-stealing-hedge-clippers-the-louisiana-supreme-court-says-its-a-fair-sentence/ar-BB17AOzr?li=BBnb7Kz
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He got life for stealing hedge clippers. The Louisiana Supreme Court says it's a fair sentence. (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2020 OP
OH MY GOD IN HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW CAN THIS BE POSSIBLE??? secondwind Aug 2020 #1
When you think some people are convicted of MURDER and don't get life!! Nt raccoon Aug 2020 #2
Brutal. peacebuzzard Aug 2020 #3
No one in their right mind would think this is just. CrispyQ Aug 2020 #4
How is this permitted????? soothsayer Aug 2020 #5
Grrrrr! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #6
Agree this is not justice; but, there is a whole lot more to the story. Hoyt Aug 2020 #7
The article is interesting... TreasonousBastard Aug 2020 #8
The GOP is not and never has been pro life or for Judicial fairness. flying_wahini Aug 2020 #9
Really? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 #10
How horrible can it get? sinkingfeeling Aug 2020 #11

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
6. Grrrrr!
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:10 AM
Aug 2020

They should keep violent criminals AND white collar criminals locked up & quit this with minorities! (Guessing he is a person of color.)

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
7. Agree this is not justice; but, there is a whole lot more to the story.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:22 AM
Aug 2020

". . . . . Bryant. . . was first convicted in 1979, serving 10 years for the attempted armed robbery of a cabdriver. Johnson pointed out that the rest of his three convictions were nonviolent: possessing some stolen goods from a Radio Shack; trying to forge a $150 check; and then in 1992 breaking into a home and stealing personal property, for which he served another four years in prison."

Also agree with the lone dissenting Justice:

"The lone Black judge on the bench was the only one to disagree. In a searing dissent, Chief Justice Bernette Johnson said Bryant’s sentence was only due to Louisiana’s harsh habitual offender laws, a “modern manifestation” of the so-called “Pig Laws” designed to keep Black people in poverty during Reconstruction."

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
8. The article is interesting...
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:31 AM
Aug 2020

The lone dissent was new chief justice, who is black, and referred to "pig laws" redefining habitual offenders with the real motivation of re-enslaving freed slaves through criminal "justice".

flying_wahini

(6,529 posts)
9. The GOP is not and never has been pro life or for Judicial fairness.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:46 AM
Aug 2020

It’s all about their myopic vision that only includes white peopl.

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