[https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/06/us/louisiana-supreme-court-trnd/index.html](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/06/us/louisiana-supreme-court-trnd/index.html) >"A Black Louisiana man will spend the rest of his life in prison for stealing hedge clippers, after the Louisiana Supreme Court denied his request to have his sentence overturned last week."

[https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/06/us/louisiana-supreme-court-trnd/index.html](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/06/us/louisiana-supreme-court-trnd/index.html)

A Black Louisiana man will spend the rest of his life in prison for stealing hedge clippers, after the Louisiana Supreme Court denied his request to have his sentence overturned last week. Fair Wayne Bryant, 62, was convicted in 1997 on one count of attempted simple burglary. In his appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Louisiana in 2018, his attorney, Peggy Sullivan, wrote that Bryant "contends that his life sentence is unconstitutionally harsh and excessive." Last week, though, the state Supreme Court disagreed -- with five justices choosing to uphold the life sentence.