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Black man’s life sentence in stolen hedge clippers case is ‘cruel and unusual,’ Louisiana judge says

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Repeat offender laws sent Fair Wayne Bryant to prison for life after trying to steal hedge clippers. Louisiana's Supreme Court won't review the case.

      
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