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Guard's Attack for Smoking States Claim
Loaded on May 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1994, page 12
Allain Norman was a detainee in the Norfolk County jail in Virginia. While being processed into custody he asked a trusty for a drag off his cigarette. As soon as he began to smoke, jail deputy Otis Taylor ran down the hallway and swung a heavy set of brass keys ...
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