'If he lives another 20 years, Louisiana taxpayers will have paid almost one million dollars to punish Mr. Bryant for his failed effort to steal a set of hedge clippers,' wrote Bernette J. Johnson, the state's first African-American Chief Justice.
, involves an 1997 incident in which Fair Wayne Bryant was convicted of attempted burglary.
The event happened after Bryant's vehicle stalled and he admitted going into someone's carport looking for a tank of gas. He was discovered and fled. After later being stopped by police, Bryant faced allegations that hedge clippers found in his vehicle were stolen from the carport, a claim he denied. At greater issue in the case: Evidence suggesting Bryant intended to commit a theft and his previous criminal record. He received a life sentence and has been unsuccessful in his attempts to appeal it.Johnson, the court's only Black judge, was the only judge to support reviewing the case.
She described Bryant's previous offenses as the kind of "petty theft" often tied to the"ravages of poverty or addiction." She criticized the state's repeat offender law which allowed for the life sentence, likening it to “Pig Laws" and racist Black Codes.
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