LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The first thing Dell Crawford did when he got out of prison in March was go to the gas station and pick up a Milky Way candy bar. He had been serving a 20 to 40-year sentence for a murder he did not commit.
It took 17 years and technological advancements to prove his innocence in court.
“I felt wonderful,” he said of the moment he learned he would be released. “It was the best I had felt in, well, 17 years.”
Crawford had been in prison for the 2007 murder of Tatanisha “Joy” Williams, the mother of his brother’s two children. He says on Sept. 10 of that year, he drove to her home to pick her up to take her on some errands…