New Orleans Man Freed After Serving 20 Years For Stealing 2 Shirts
On Friday (Apr. 16), Guy Frank, a 67-year-old New Orleans man, has been freed from prison after being incarcerated for 20 years for stealing 2 shirts.
Per The Innocence Project New Orleans, Frank was handed down a 23-year sentence due to Louisiana’s multiple offender law — which is intended to be the state’s version of he “three strikes law,” even though Louisiana’s version doesn’t require a conviction for violent crime, reportedly.
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It’s reported that Frank reportedly was busted stealing two shirts from Saks Fifth Avenue back in September 2000. Reportedly, he was caught regularly stealing to fund his heroin habit. After being apprehended, he was booked for theft of goods valued for less than $500.
In a statement from the Innocence Project, they said, “Even though he accepted responsibility for his crime, lawyers at District Attorney Harry Connick’s office asked that the judge find him to be a multiple offender, because he had been convicted of theft multiple times before, and to enhance his sentence. Judge Sharon Hunter imposed on him a sentence of 23 years in the Department of Corrections without the possibility of parole.”
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