Bozella's Case Study

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For Bozella this case was extremely hard to fight. In the beginning stages of trying to find you ever committed this crime they had Bozella as a aspects. The only factors that were holding Bozella close to the case was that he was know to be around the area and the lies fabricated by two inmates. Once they saw that Dewey wasn't at fault for this crime they dropped any charges against him. Even though Bozella was released of being a primary suspect in this case he was brought back six years later. Reasoning to bringing back Mozella into the case was because two inmates that were in prison for this case but then released, stated that Bozella had something to do with it. Dewey then found guilty and put for twenty years to life in

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