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Man Freed After Spending 20 Years in Prison for Stealing Two Shirts

Man Freed After Spending 20 Years in Prison for Stealing Two Shirts VladTV 1,432 views   •  comments New Orleans man Guy Frank is making headlines after he was released from prison after 20 years for stealing two shirts. Frank, 67, was sentenced under Louisiana s version of a three strikes law. Frank stated that he didn t know what he was doing when he pleaded guilty to a felony theft charge for stealing two shirts from a Saks Fifth Avenue store in 2000, which he said he had done that day and prior to support his heroin habit. Frank was initially given a 2-year sentence, but former District Attorney Harry Connick Sr.’s office invoked the habitual offender law, raising his minimum sentence to 20 years. After that, Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Sharon Hunter upped the sentence to 23 years. 

Louisiana Man, 67, Released From Prison for Stealing Two Shirts 20 Years Ago

Louisiana Man, 67, Released From Prison for Stealing Two Shirts 20 Years Ago Caption Guy Frank is finally free, after stealing two shirts 20 years ago. Credit- Twitter 5229 According to the Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO), Guy Frank was released from prison in Louisiana after serving 20 years for stealing two shirts from Saks 5th Avenue in New Orleans in 2000. Innocence Project New Orleans works to free innocent people sentenced to life in prison as well as advocates for sensible criminal justice policies that reduce wrongful convictions. IPNO also strives to support clients, like Frank, to live well and fully in the world after their release. IPNO was created when its founding director Emily Bolton was awarded a two-year fellowship from the National Association for Public Interest Law (now Equal Justice Works) for reviewing the cases of life-sentenced prisoners in Louisiana who may have been wrongly convicted but had no way of proving it from inside prison without a lawye

After 20 years in prison for stealing two shirts, a Louisiana man is free

Print In September 2000, Guy Frank was caught stealing two shirts from a Saks Fifth Avenue in New Orleans. The stolen clothing was almost immediately returned to the department store, but the consequences of his crime - then considered a felony in Louisiana - would last him far longer: Frank ended up serving a sentence of more than two decades. Last week, he was finally released. His sentence is another result of Louisiana’s habitual offender laws, which allow prosecutors to seek harsher sentences for lesser crimes if a defendant has previous convictions. These rules, sometimes known as “three-strikes” laws, have drawn heavy scrutiny for driving mass incarceration and exacerbating racial inequities in the most incarcerated state in the country.

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