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100 1  Bozella, Dewey,|eauthor. 
245 10 Stand tall :|bfighting for my life, inside and outside the
       ring /|cDewey Bozella with Tamara Jones. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bEcco,|c[2016] 
300    viii, 238 pages :|bcolor illustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    The motivational speaker and recipient of the Arthur Ashe 
       Courage Award presents an inspirational account of the 
       twenty-six years he spent behind bars at Sing Sing for a 
       murder he did not commit. 
520    The inspiring story of one man's fight against his 
       wrongful incarceration and his eventual triumph--both 
       inside and outside the boxing ring. In the late 1970s, 
       Dewey Bozella [age 24] was wrongfully convicted of 
       murdering Emma Crapser, a ninety-two-year-old resident of 
       Poughkeepsie, New York. Sentenced to twenty years to life 
       in prison, Bozella fiercely maintained his innocence 
       throughout his ordeal at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, 
       and even refused the prosecutor's offer of freedom in 
       exchange for an admission of guilt. But in 2009, more than
       a quarter century later, Dewey Bozella would reclaim his 
       identity and his humanity when his conviction was vacated.
       In this raw and uplifting memoir, Bozella takes us through
       the trials, tribulations, and joys of his life inside 
       prison and, eventually, as a free man. While at Sing Sing,
       he took up boxing to channel his anger, and eventually 
       became the prison's light-heavyweight champion. Bozella 
       also met and married the love of his life from behind bars,
       lost countless parole hearings, and spent agonizing time 
       on a cell block with both his brother's murderer and, it 
       turned out, the true criminal in whose place Bozella 
       served so much time. But Bozella never gave up. After he 
       was refused parole and had his sentence extended, the 
       Innocence Project caught word of his case. Thanks to his 
       undying faith, stalwart persistence, and the aid of a 
       young pro bono attorney at the Innocence Project who 
       doggedly worked toward Bozella's release when all hope 
       seemed lost, he was released from prison in 2009. Shortly 
       thereafter, he won his professional boxing debut against 
       Larry Hopkins, started an afterschool athletics program 
       for at-risk youth, and was awarded the Arthur Ashe Award 
       for Courage. An incredibly uplifting underdog story, Stand
       Tall recounts one man's perseverance in the face of 
       injustice and his difficult road to freedom.--Dust jacket.
600 10 Bozella, Dewey. 
650  0 Prisoners|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Judicial error|zUnited States. 
650  0 Criminal justice, Administration of|zUnited States. 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SPORTS & RECREATION / Boxing.|2bisacsh 
700 1  Jones, Tamara,|eauthor. 
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