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.
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He got the hammer dropped because he was a repeat offender, but other than the crime in 1979 it was pretty petty stuff.
