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2018

Siggers’ Firearms Exoneration

Forensic commentary

A summary of the discredited ballistics testimony at the center of the case, and the 2008 audit that found a near ten percent error rate in the Detroit Police Crime Lab’s firearms work.

News

August 16, 2018

Detroit Man Released from Prison After 34 Years of Wrongful Incarceration

Innocence Project · Innocence Staff

Prosecutors agreed to vacate Siggers’ conviction after the ballistics evidence and witness testimony from his 1984 trial were disputed by independent firearms examiners.

Feature

October

Exonerees Say Freedom is in the Hands of Law Students as Future Lawyers

Cooley Law School

Siggers and LeDura Watkins address Cooley students on hope, forgiveness, and the preparation that finally made the difference.

News

October 19, 2018

After 34 years in prison, Detroit man’s “improbable journey” ends with exoneration

Michigan Public (Michigan Radio) · By Sarah Cwiek

Wayne County prosecutors drop all charges “in the interest of justice,” making Siggers the 19th person exonerated in Michigan since 2017.

Feature

July 24, 2019

Detroiter tells story about conviction, exoneration

The Monroe News · By Caitlin Taylor Boron

On a Monroe public-access program, Siggers walks viewers through the arrest, the trial, and the law library that carried him out.

News

August 28, 2019

Man exonerated in ’84 slaying sues ex-Detroit cop, lab tech’s estate

The Detroit News · By Oralandar Brand-Williams

A $150 million federal lawsuit alleges a retired detective and a crime lab technician hid and fabricated the evidence that sent Siggers to prison for 34 years.

Op-Ed

May 16, 2020

Wrongfully Imprisoned For 34 Years: Darrell Siggers Explains Why Prisons and COVID-19 Are a Dangerous Combination

The PuLSE Institute · By Darrell A. Siggers

An insider’s view of why correctional facilities are incubators for disease — written by a man who spent 34 years inside them.

Photo Essay

July 17, 2021

Band of Brothers exonerees attend Better Together luncheon

The Detroit News · Photographs by Todd McInturf

Exonerees, mentors, and Detroit police officers share a grill at the Detroit NAACP chapter — a portrait of what reentry and reconciliation look like in practice.

Op-Ed

May 12, 2023

Jeffery Gerritt: The difference we make is all that matters

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · By Jeffery Gerritt

A Pulitzer Prize-winning editor reunites in Detroit with Darrell Siggers and Darryl Woods, men he first met in prison blues twelve years earlier.

News

March 26, 2024

Michigan Lawmakers Working to Fix a Program That Failed to Compensate the Wrongfully Convicted

ProPublica · By Anna Clark

State law provides $50,000 for each year of wrongful imprisonment, but narrow requirements led to delays, partial settlements, and outright denials.

News

October 3

Cooley Law School’s Innocence Project Recognizes National Wrongful Conviction Day with Exoneree Event

Cooley Law School

Siggers joins exonerees Kenneth Nixon and Duane Williams on a panel about suspect-first investigations and the work still waiting inside.

Feature

April 11, 2025

Darrell’s Story: Rebuilding a Life After 34 Years

Foundation for Financial Planning

How education became the weapon that freed him — and how pro bono financial planning, After Innocence, and his nonprofit AccessPlusAnswers shape what he does with his freedom.

Research

Research project

Darrell Siggers and Desmond Ricks: Witness Intimidation and Faulty Forensic Evidence

University of Michigan History Labs — Policing & Social Justice

A scholarly account of how coerced witnesses and a discredited Detroit Police firearms unit compounded one another to produce wrongful convictions in Wayne County.