A man in Alabama just had his sentence changed so that he'll be getting out of prison soon. He's served 36 years for stealing $50.75 from a bakery.
According to reports, Alvin Kennard was 22 years old when he was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1984, for the robbery of Highlands Bakery in 1983. Alabama state law apparently at the time mandated that since it was his fourth offense, the judge was required to sentence him to life in prison.
Alvin Kennard was sentenced to life in prison without parole as part of a mandatory sentencing law for people convicted of four offenses.That law, the Habitual Felony Offender Act, has since been changed so that judges now have the option to give fourth-time offenders the possibility of parole. However, when the law was changed in the early 2000s, it wasn't made retroactive, so it didn't prompt a re-sentencing in Kennard's case.
"This was a judge that kind of went out of his way," Kennard's attorney, Carla Crowder, told ABC News., that Kennard's good behavior in prison played a role in the judge's decision when, on Wednesday, the judge decided to change Kennard's sentence to time served and prompt his release. I just witnessed the most extraordinary moment. Judge David Carpenter in Bessemer, AL has resentenced Alvin Kennard to time served after he got life without parole for robbing a bakery of $50 in 1983. He is now 58 & was 22 when he committed the robbery.
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