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Black man serving life for stealing hedge clippers paroled

by Kevin McGILL
| October 15, 2020 8:30 AM

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.

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