A federal judge gave reputed Colombo mobster Scott Fappiano no prison time on an extortion conviction because she felt bad he previously had served 21 years on a wrongful rape conviction as reported by John Marzulli for the Daily News:
Defense lawyer Harlan Protass said that while Fappiano was serving time for the rape conviction, he was assaulted by guards and inmates, stabbed with a razor blade, slammed in the face with a pipe and watched another prisoner burned to death. "He witnessed things no human being should see," Protass said. "He has a tremendous fear of going back to prison."
Apparently Fappiano's purported fear was not so great to keep him from the mob life.
In any event, Judge Kiyo Matsumoto "said Fappiano's experience as an innocent man who endured the horrors of prison played a 'very significant' role in her decision to not send Fappiano back to jail" as reported by Mitchel Maddux for the New York Post.
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