Bryant, then 38, was arrested on Jan. 5, 1997, after he took a pair of clippers from a carport storeroom at a home in Shreveport, then ran off with them when the homeowner was alerted to the theft.
A jury convicted him of attempted simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling. Later that year, he was sentenced to life in prison because he was considered a “habitual” offender under state law. Bryant had several previous convictions, though in her dissent, Johnson pointed out that only one of them was violent, a 1979 attempted armed robbery case in which he served 10 years hard labor.“Each of these crimes was an effort to steal something,” Johnson wrote. “Such petty theft is frequently driven by the ravages of poverty or addiction, and often both.
The district attorney whose office has defended Bryant’s conviction and sentencing, James Stewart, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In an email, a lawyer who represented Bryant on a past appeal, Peggy Sullivan, said:"My comment is that Justice Johnson said it more eloquently than I could."
And this is our high courts of clowns. My opinion only. The clowns know who they are & no you think your safe from punishment. You wish. Root pulling.
Don't steal
Horrific Injustice! Where are all the people with money to help this poor man?
Is she high? It doesn't cost over 100k a year to house an inmate lmao she's just making stuff up. Also, there's 4mil people in the state, take a penny from one of my paychecks each month to keep this career thief and robber behind bars, thank you.
Meanwhile real criminals are being pardoned by our incompetent potus
This needs national attention! Every single judge, prosecutor, and Bailif, should be investigated for criminal activity! THEY should be in jail! Dirty filfy mofus! 😡
But what were the rest of the factors in his sentencing? Media ignores law, but judges cannot, or should not. If he was a '3 time' criminal, many states have mandatory laws for sentencing. But the sad fact is that America is starting to eliminate our laws. Will not work.
Thats crazy
Our judicial system is ruining peopls lives instead of trying to rehabilitate them. Clearly the police aren't the only part of the justice system in desperate need of reform.
It was only possible because of Biden, BillClintonIsAPedo, and Hillary... 3 strikes law.
This is a modern day Les Miserables.
How tragic 😢
It's not as simple as hedge clippers fool. You know you guys suck at news.
It’s called the three-strikes law. Wanna know who came up with it? You guessed it: Joe Biden in 1994.
Stop identifying race ,gender it clearly makes no difference. We all have a name given at birth use it! Your Marxist propaganda is clearly attempting to strike emotion in A effort to divide American race. We are brother and sister united race of people. Criminals deserve penalty
Wild guess. Black guy?
He may be a repeat offender but he is most certainly not a danger to society. Looking at his crimes I would say he is too stupid. WakeUpAmerica
🇨🇦I am assuming he is black it would never be a white person. America is a designed racist nation
So we need to keep releasing him until he kills someone before we throw aaay the key? 🤔
Nazi usa
A previous history of violence and armed robbery plays into decision.
There should be reasonable punishments that make paying for the crime not worth doing the crime. Never, ever forget it was the DemocRATs who made those 'reenslavement laws in the first place. wants to somehow blame this on the Orangeman.
So he was a habitual offender. A career criminal. Who had been arrested and sentenced for burglary and possession of stolen goods so many times and released, only to reoffend, that the courts finally threw away the key?
The punishment is too harsh judge.
Let me guess; he’s black.
Penny wise, pound foolish
Welcome to America.
Massive failure by parole board...unless of course he committed crimes in prison*
This is disgusting, unconstitutional, and criminal.
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Did any of the convicted catholic priests get life? Hmm..what’s worse, stealing hedge clippers or ...? 🤔
Let me guess judge is a democrat .
What a fucked up system
Thou shalt not steal. Which part is unclear?
must be a black man in the south
'If he lives another 20 years, Louisiana taxpayers will have paid almost 278,125,422 dogecoin to punish Mr. Bryant for his failed effort to steal a set of hedge clippers,' Chief Justice Bernette Johnson wrote in a dissent. $DOGE dogecointo1dollar
That's bs
Please explain how someome can get life for stealing. You don't even get life for murder.
The US is not a role model in the world. Not a great country. The opposite is true.
But racism in our court system isn’t a problem.
They are too busy. And he is black so who cares? They don't
The cost of keeping prisoners is way higher than the cost of helping people so they won’t consider crime as an option. They call the wrong one “Socialism”. The real socialism occurs in prison.
He must be Black.
Y’all gotta be specific 😒
7 million.
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