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 its 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 states 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.
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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
secondwind
(16,903 posts)This makes me SOOOO MAD....
raccoon
(31,092 posts)peacebuzzard
(5,124 posts)hard to imagine this injustice.
CrispyQ
(36,231 posts)WTF happened to this GD country?
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Outrageous
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)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)". . . . . 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 Bryants sentence was only due to Louisianas 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)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)Its all about their myopic vision that only includes white peopl.