Louisiana Supreme Court upholds Black man's life sentence for stealing hedge clippers more than...

Sounds like he needs mental health assessment

So much for prison reform the GOP are stumping about!

Thank you my friend SSG(P) (Join to see) for sharing the unsurprising news that Louisiana's Supreme Court won't review a life sentence for Fair Wayne Bryant, who was convicted of attempting to steal a pair of hedge clippers in 1997.
Fair Wayne Bryant had "four prior convictions. Only the first was violent: an attempted armed robbery in 1979, for which he was sentenced to 10 years hard labor. His subsequent convictions were for possession of stolen property in 1987, attempted forgery of a $150 check in 1989 and burglary of a house in 1992."
"Since his conviction in 1997, Mr. Bryant's incarceration has cost Louisiana taxpayers approximately $518,667," she wrote. "Arrested at 38, Mr. Bryant has already spent nearly 23 years in prison and is now over 60 years old."
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"I recognize you concur with "Chief Justice Bernette Johnson was the sole dissenter in the court's decision last week, writing that Bryant's sentence is "excessive and disproportionate to the offense" — and that it was costing the state a lot of money to keep him imprisoned."
from {[https://www.npr.org/2020/08/05/899525589/louisiana-supreme-court-wont-review-life-sentence-for-man-who-stole-hedge-clippe]}

At this point, with the Marxist BLM efforts to impugn treatment of black suspects and criminal by police, courts, and the prison systems, it isn't surprising that Chief Justice Bernette Johnson wants to play that card.

I suspect that Fair Wayne Bryant has spent so much time in prison since he was an older teenager in 1979 for attempted armed robbery that he feels more at home in the Louisiana prison system than on the street.
1. His recidivism is a strong indicator to me that he should be jailed.
2. In the SARS-CoV-2 infection risk, the prison systems tend to be less at risk that other institutions. Example, I had an echocardiogram at Martinsburg, WV, VAMC and the tech that performed the echo on me had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 along with 14 medical teammates after one picked up the infection. Thankfully they are each alive and working although experiencing after affects of SARS-Cov-2.

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