Cooley Law School Innocence Project

We were honored to represent Mr. Crawford and are delighted he is home.

We are proud of the hard work of Cooley Innocence Project staff attorneys Jessa Webber and Niquole Caringi in collaboration with the Wayne County Conviction Integrity Unit.

In 2008, Dell Crawford was convicted of second-degree murder in Detroit, Michigan and sentenced to 20 years and 10 months to 45 years in prison. He was on March 24, 2026, after DNA testing of the victim's fingernail scrapings excluded him.
Read this case's full history at: https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/19621. You can also use the Explore Exonerations tool found on our home page, exonerationregistry.org, to browse through nearly 3,800 cases in our database.