[2] In September 1980, Polozola presided over the racketeering and extortion trial of former Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Gil Dozier of Baton Rouge.
[3][4] Polozola presided over the case of notorious Louisiana drug smuggler Barry Seal, who made countless runs from Central America to the United States, flying thousands of pounds of cocaine and marijuana into the country and making millions of dollars.
As part of a plea bargain after his arrest, Seal was effectively shielded from serving hard time for narcotic trafficking.
A condition of the sentence was that he had to spend every night, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., at the Salvation Army halfway house on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge.
Seal's attorney, Lewis Unglesby, told Polozola his ruling amounted to a death sentence for his client.