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Trump should pardon guy with life sentence for stealing hedge clippers
Posted on 8/6/20 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 8/6/20 at 4:46 pm
NPR Article
Am I missing something here? I want to believe this man did something else to deserve such a harsh sentence...can anyone shed some light if there is any?
Was there some serious crime tacked onto this via the "habitual offender law"?
Should Trump pardon this guy? He's already served 23 years.
Am I missing something here? I want to believe this man did something else to deserve such a harsh sentence...can anyone shed some light if there is any?
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A Louisiana man will continue to spend his life in prison for stealing a pair of hedge clippers, after the state's Supreme Court denied his request to review a lower court's sentence.
Fair Wayne Bryant was convicted in 1997 of stealing the hedge clippers. Prosecutors pursued and won a life sentence in the case, a penalty permissible under the state's habitual offender law. Bryant appealed the life sentence as too severe.
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.
Was there some serious crime tacked onto this via the "habitual offender law"?
Should Trump pardon this guy? He's already served 23 years.
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Posted on 8/6/20 at 4:48 pm to SUB
quote:Yes.
Was there some serious crime tacked onto this via the "habitual offender law"?
quote:No.
Should Trump pardon this guy?
quote:Commute his sentence to time served but no pardon.
He's already served 23 years.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 4:49 pm to SUB
I hate a fricking thief .
Posted on 8/6/20 at 4:50 pm to SUB
quote:
Am I missing something here? I want to believe this man did something else to deserve such a harsh sentence...can anyone shed some light if there is any?
Are you serious ?
It's obvious this worthless frick never learned a lesson.
Why do you like criminals ?
Posted on 8/6/20 at 4:52 pm to SUB
quote:
Am I missing something here?
Yes.
quote:
I want to believe this man did something else to deserve such a harsh sentence...
Then rest easy. They didn’t give him a life sentence for theft of some hedge clippers. They put him away because he never learned his lesson.
This post was edited on 8/6/20 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 8/6/20 at 4:53 pm to SUB
quote:
Was there some serious crime tacked onto this via the "habitual offender law"?
What's his rapsheet?
I'll have less sympathy for a wife beater who's been in 3 bar fights, two DUIs, robbed a gas station, stole a vehicle, busted for selling dope, etc.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 4:54 pm to rb
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I hate a fricking thief
Lots of time a murderer commits their crime in a fit of rage and could be a decent human being the rest of their life. A thief will always be a thief and rapist will always be a rapist.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 4:55 pm to SUB
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This post was edited on 8/6/20 at 4:56 pm
Posted on 8/6/20 at 4:56 pm to Azkiger
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What's his rapsheet?
It’s in the link:
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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.
I’m surprised the burglary didn’t send him up permanently.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 4:56 pm to SUB
United States has one of the worst Justice Systems for a "1st World" country.
Meanwhile TJ Wiggins has 230 felonies on his record, but was currently out on bail before he killed 3 people in Polk County.
Meanwhile TJ Wiggins has 230 felonies on his record, but was currently out on bail before he killed 3 people in Polk County.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 4:57 pm to SUB
Don’t be a habitual offender
Posted on 8/6/20 at 4:59 pm to SUB
quote:
Should Trump pardon this guy? He's already served 23 years.
He's in state custody. He needs to ask the Democratic Governor.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 5:01 pm to idlewatcher
Just like the illegal aliens that commit dozens of heinous crimes yet walk free in the US scamming free public benefits ........
Posted on 8/6/20 at 5:05 pm to rb
quote:
I hate a fricking thief .
Me and you, brother. I’d rather live next door to an axe murderer, than a fricking thief.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 5:08 pm to SUB
Do you think that, just maybe, what he did prior to that was enough to have put him away to begin with? 
Posted on 8/6/20 at 5:12 pm to SUB
Often in these kind of cases, there is something else or a lot of something elses the prosecutors, police and courts are aware of that they can't quite prove in court.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 5:12 pm to SUB
He had multiple chances. He’s a career criminal. He played a dangerous game and lost. Society is safer without him in it.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 5:16 pm to SUB
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Should Trump pardon this guy?
These are state charges Trump has no authority over it.
JBE would have to pardon him.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 5:30 pm to Sput
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I hate a fricking thief
Lots of time a murderer commits their crime in a fit of rage and could be a decent human being the rest of their life. A thief will always be a thief and rapist will always be a rapist.
I am not a christian and do not believe in any kind of god so I am not burdened with that kind of shite but I don't think just because a person was once a thief they are always a thief. Most of us did some pretty stupid shite when were young....most are fortunate we didn't get caught....but very few people are the same person at 40 that they were at 20.....tossing away human lives because of stupid shite they did in their 20's, like selling drugs or stealing someone's shite, as shitty as that is, shouldn't always condemn that person to a lifetime of struggle as it does now....a person can and usually does reform themselves from doing stupid shite....
Most men over the age of 40 have committed a sex crime by todays standards....at 15 or 16 it was pretty common for men in the 70s and 80s to sexually assault a woman as the term is defined today. Having sex with someone when they are drunk, not passed out but just drunk to have their judgement impaired a little, was a regular thing back in the day....almost all of us were guilty of it, again as defined today....imagine if you had to register as a sex offender for that indiscretion...even just copping a feel of kissing someone who hadn't signed a permission slip....I wouldn't dare do it today because I realize it is wrong but at 15???? With a boner and no real sense of right or wrong??? It is a sobering thought.....and one our sons are faced with that can destroy their lives today.
Posted on 8/6/20 at 5:33 pm to SUB
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habitual offender law
He'd already been in jail four times before this last time. The first time he was sentenced to 10 years for armed robbery. Got released early and was thoughtful enough to do it again. The final hedge clippers thing was just "enough is enough" and was sent away as a repeat offender.
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