Brooklyn native gets $7.5M payment in man’s wrongful imprisonment suit
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Lawmakers in a Hudson Valley county have cleared the way for a $7.5 million settlement with a Brooklyn native who spent 26 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing a 92-year-old woman.
The Dutchess County Legislature on Tuesday approved the funds for the settlement with 55-year-old Dewey Bozella of Beacon.
Bozella was convicted in 1983 of murdering Emma Crasper in Poughkeepsie. He was convicted again at a retrial in 1990, but released from prison 19 years later when a judge ruled police and prosecutors withheld evidence.