US EditionExonerated Broward Man Receives $1.7M After Serving 34 Years for Crime He Didn’t Commit | News Channel 3-12
- Sidney Holmes, wrongly convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to 400 years, was released in 2023 after 34 years in prison in Broward County, Florida.
- Holmes' conviction was overturned following an investigation by the Conviction Review Unit and the Innocence Project of Florida, which found he was misidentified as the getaway driver.
- The original conviction relied on unreliable eyewitness identification despite Holmes' lanky build, contradicting witness descriptions of a short and heavyset driver during a 1988 robbery near Fort Lauderdale.
- In 2025, Florida legislators passed a claims bill awarding Holmes $1.7 million plus 120 credit hours of tuition in recognition of the wrongful conviction, which Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law.
- Holmes expressed relief knowing his name is cleared but said no amount of money can replace the decades lost, and he now holds full-time employment while advocating to prevent future wrongful convictions.
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Pompano Beach (33060), Broward Justice: Wrongfully Convicted Man Awarded $1.7M – LIVE UPDATES
Pompano Beach (33060), Broward County – After spending more than three decades behind bars for a crime he did not commit, Broward County man Sidney Holmes is finally receiving vindication. On July 3, 2025, the State of Florida approved a $1.7 million compensation payment to Holmes, now 59, in recognition of his wrongful 1988 conviction in an armed robbery case outside a local convenience store. Holmes, who was sentenced to an astonishing 400 yea…
Exonerated Broward man receives $1.7M after serving 34 years for crime he didn’t commit - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports
A Broward County man has received $1.7 million in compensation from the State of Florida for a wrongful conviction that led to him serving 34 years in jail. Fifty-nine-year-old Sidney Holmes was released from prison in 2023 after initially being sentenced to 400 years in prison. On Wednesday, two years after being released, Holmes has accepted $1.7 million after the State of Florida admitted he was wrongfully convicted for a crime he did not com…
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The Derrick$1.7 million approved for wrongfully convicted Florida man sentenced to 400 years in prison
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis has approved a $1.7 million payment to a Broward County man who was once sentenced to 400 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of serving as the getaway driver in a robbery…
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