Alabama man spent 36 years behind bars after stealing $50. He is about to go free.
The state's Department of Corrections had to process Kennard out of the system, which is why he wasn't immediately released after the ruling. He was released from the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility, just outside of Bessemer, Alabama on Friday, the Alabama Department of Corrections said in a statement.
Alvin Kennard sits in the courtroom before his hearing in Bessemer, Ala. on Aug. 28, 2019. Kennard, sentenced to life in prison in 1983, for stealing $50.75 will have his time cut short after being resentenced to time served."We've just been praying and trusting in God that this day would come and it's here, and we're so grateful to God," Kennard's nieceKennard was convicted of robbing a bakery Jan. 24, 1983, in a felony that netted him $50.
But in 2013, the Alabama Sentencing Commission adopted new guidelines which, if they had been in place when Kennard robbed the bakery, would have made his previous crime not serious enough to trigger a life sentence without parole, defense lawyers said. Had these new standards been in place then, Kennard couldn't have been imprisoned for any more than 20 years, his attorney Carla Crowder said. He could have been eligible for parole after 10 years.“I’m sorry for what I did," Kennard, dressed in orange-and-white jail garb, said."I was wrong."
The district attorney's office did not oppose the change in his sentence. Prosecutor Lane Tolbert said, however, that his office did not err in applying the law.Kennard has said that after his release, he plans to live with family in Bessemer and work in carpentry.
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