34 years behind bars, Broward Resident Exonerated

Sidney Holmes, a 57-year-old man who was sentenced to 400 years in prison in a 1988 armed robbery in Broward was set free on Monday after more than 34 years behind bars.

He is to be released from prison following a request from the Broward State Attorney’s Office Conviction Review Unit Reports are that Holmes contacted the unit in November 2020 claiming he was innocent in the June 19, 1988, armed robbery of two people outside a convenience store on Northwest 6th Street in unincorporated Broward Holmes, of Lauderhill, was arrested in October 1988 and

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given a hefty sentence after being convicted in a jury trial in 1989

Prosecutors said Holmes had been accused of being the driver for two unidentified men who robbed a man and woman at gunpoint and stole the man ’ s car

The Conviction Review Unit, working with the Innocence Project of Florida, investigated and found Holmes had a plausible claim of innocence because of how he became a suspect and because of the precarious eyewitness identification that was the principal evidence against him at trial Investigators found the eyewitness identification of Holmes was likely a misidentification partly due to the photo and live lineup practices commonly used by law enforcement at the time, which they said was scientifically unreliable and continues on B3 – Exonerated after 34 years

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