Talk:Dewey Bozella

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POV and fanpage/vanity page[edit]

Okay, so I'm currently going over this page again and I'm unsure as to whether it's really a vanity page, but I guess the story is notable enough for Wikipedia. My question is, can we do something about making it little less POV? It's very subjective. Kultur (talk) 03:20, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Compensation from the Stat of California[edit]

"His application for compensation from the State of California was turned down". Does anyone know why he was seeking compensation from California? He was convicted of committing a crime in New York, tried in New York, served his time in New York, had his case re-evaluated in New York, and currently lives in New York. The Innocence Project is based in New York, WilmerHale is based in Boston, and Bozella's boxing match was in Boston. Where does California come into the picture? The only other mention of California refers to him getting the Arthur Ashe Courage Award in L.A. The source for this piece of information, while legitimate, doesn't explain why either. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.124.145.150 (talk) 15:21, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article is repeating a error in the reference [5] (http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/moving_america_news/33420). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.177.225.127 (talk) 17:02, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I found another reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/nyregion/exonerated-of-murder-dewey-bozella-makes-a-boxing-debut.html?_r=2&emc=eta1 “Mr. Bozella hopes to open his own gym as a way to mentor youngsters, but beyond its Hollywood touches, his feel-good story turns cloudier. The day after he passed the boxing test, a federal judge threw out his lawsuit against Dutchess County and the City of Poughkeepsie over the evidence that was not turned over to his lawyers.

The decision was primarily based on a controversial Supreme Court ruling in the case of Connick v. Thompson. By a 5-to-4 margin, the court, in a decision written by Justice Clarence Thomas in March, threw out a $14 million jury award to a former death row inmate freed after prosecutorial misconduct came to light. The decision stated that only a pattern of misconduct in properly turning over evidence could warrant financial compensation, no matter how egregious the misconduct against a single defendant. ”

I'm not sure how to edit references in the article, so I'll leave the editing to someone else. 201.248.52.116 (talk) 14:33, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]