Deshawn Reed

Wrongfully convicted: August 27, 2001
Exonerated: July 8, 2009
Wayne County

Deshawn Reed was wrongfully convicted in 2001, along with his uncle, Marvin Reed, for shooting a man in Ecorse, MI. 

Their convictions were thrown out and the charges dismissed after it was discovered that another man had confessed to the crime, and actually possessed the gun that was matched to this crime. 

Deshawn and Marvin were the first two clients exonerated by the Michigan Innocence Clinic.

More details available at:

• The National Registry of Exonerations: Deshawn Reed
• Metro Times: “Innocence regained?”
• Metro Times: “Finding innocence”
• The Detroit News: “Exonerated man reopens shuttered Coney Island in Detroit”