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Black man serving life for stealing hedge clippers paroled in Louisiana

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Black man whose life sentence for making off with hedge clippers in a 1997 burglary drew scathing criticism from the chief justice of Louisiana’s Supreme Court was granted parole Thursday.The 3-0 vote during an online meeting of the Committee on Parole means freedom, with conditions, for Fair Wayne Bryant.Louisiana’s Supreme Court had denied release for Bryant, 63, earlier this year for the burglary from a carport storage room.The case drew national attention for a dissent by Chief Justice Bernette Johnson, the high court's only Black justice.

She said the habitual offender law under which Bryant was sentenced was a “modern manifestation” of Jim Crow era laws aimed at jailing Black people for simple crime.The head of.

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