Alvin Kennard was sentenced to life in prison for stealing $50 from a bakery — after 36 years, he will walk free. » Subscribe to NowThis:
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IN US news and current events today, Alabama man Alvin Kennard is walking free after spending 36 years in prison for stealing $50 from a bakery. Thanks to criminal justice system flaws, innocent people are spending time for crimes they didn't commit or were over sentenced for. Innocence project cases seek to find these opportunities for exoneration, meaning an erasure of past crimes.
Alvin Kennard was sentenced to life without parole under Alabama’s ‘Habitual Felony Offender Acts,’ more commonly known as the ‘three strikes law.’ He received a mandatory life sentence at age 22 for stealing the $50.75. Nobody was injured during the 1983 robbery. Kennard’s prior offenses were burglary & grand larceny.
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