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    Louisiana Supreme Court Won't Review Life Sentence For Man Who Stole Hedge Clippers

    In a dissent, Chief Justice Bernette Johnson compared Fair Wayne Bryant's sentence to "Pig Laws" in the years after Reconstruction, which enacted harsh penalties for theft and other petty crimes.
    by Laurel Wamsley Aug 05, 2020 2 minutes
    The Louisiana Supreme Court denied Fair Wayne Bryant's request to review his life sentence for stealing hedge clippers. Bryant has already spent nearly 23 years in prison for the crime.

    A Louisiana man will continue to spend his life in prison for stealing a pair of hedge clippers, after the state's Supreme Court denied his request to review a lower court's sentence.

    Fair Wayne Bryant was convicted in 1997 of stealing the hedge clippers. Prosecutors pursued and the life sentence as too severe.

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