In a 5-1 verdict, the court left intact the life sentence given to Fair Wayne Bryant, 62, all but closing off his final chance at reducing it. According to Louisiana law, the crime of attempted simple burglary carries no more than 12 years behind bars, but because the 1997 offense was his fourth felony, Bryant, who is Black, received a life sentence in 2000.
The Louisiana Supreme Court decision has sparked an outcry, and experts say the harsh punishment is hardly unique in a state that mandates that sentencing for a fourth felony be no less than 20 years in prison.

“There are hundreds of thousands of individuals who are in American prisons in Louisiana, in Mississippi and Florida and California, around the country, who have similar stories,” Nicole Porter, director of advocacy at the Sentencing Project, told Yahoo News.
Bryant, who was 38 at the time of the crime, was accused of stealing the clippers from the carport at a man’s home in Shreveport in January 1997, according to the 2000 appellate decision. A police officer later found Bryant along with a pair of hedge clippers in a van that fit the description of the suspect’s vehicle. The homeowner identified Bryant as the person who was in his carport and said the clippers were his. Bryant said the clippers belonged to his wife.
Bryant was sentenced to life because of four prior convictions, one of which was an attempted armed robbery. All his convictions, Johnson wrote in her dissent, involved a theft of some kind. “Such petty theft is frequently driven by the ravages of poverty or addiction,” she wrote, “and often both.”
No, nigger crimes are driven by being niggers. It figures the Supreme Court's Chief She-nig would complain "Don't serves no puhpose, sheeit!" when the purpose is clear: keeping criminals behind bars, especially niggers, keeps them from committing other crimes. When a buck keeps doing armed robbery and burglary, how many other times has it not been caught? So throw it into NU forever, and it'll never bother civilized humans again.

"Hundreds of thousands" of "similar stories"? Yeah, we do have a lot of niggers. If every criminal nigger were caught, we'd have tens of millions of them behind bars, at which point we'd outsource to China for prison barges.

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