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Attica Justice -- Served 26 Years Later
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1997, page 19
The old Italian proverb postulates that "revenge is a dish best served cold." Justice is a dish also usually served cold, although those with a taste for justice rarely prefer it so. Maybe somebody should ask Frank Smith.Twenty-six years after Smith was beaten and tortured in an orgy of …
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