Louisiana upholds black man's life sentence for trying to steal hedge clippers

PDF of lone dissenting opinion.

https://www.lasc.org/Opinions/2020/20-0077.KO.bjj.dis.pdf

tl;dr he was in prison several times before for other crimes

> Bryant, 62, received the life sentence under Louisiana’s habitual offender law, which allows a person’s sentence to increase based on their criminal history.