Black Man Serving Life Sentence For Stealing Hedge Clippers Granted Parole
Fair Wayne Bryant had committed four felonies over the two decades leading up to his 1997 theft of hedge clippers. His parole follows a failed bid for the state Supreme Court to review his sentence.
A Louisiana man serving a life sentence for stealing a pair of hedge clippers in 1997 was paroled on Thursday, after spending more than two decades in prison for his crime.
That act of simple burglary wouldn't normally lead to a life sentence. But over the previous two decades, Fair Wayne Bryant had committed , including armed robbery of a cab driver, stealing merchandise from a store, forging a check for $150, and stealing property from somebody's home.
