FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — (FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) -- A man who has served more than 34 years of a 400-year prison sentence has been released after the state of Florida reinvestigated the case and determined he did not commit armed robbery.
“I can’t put it into words,” said Sidney Holmes, now 57, in an interview with ABC affiliate WPLG after he was exonerated and freed on Monday. “It’s overwhelming.”
Holmes was convicted in a jury trial in April 1989, and sentenced to 400 years in prison. Prosecutors at the time had asked the judge to sentence him to 825 years, the CRU report found. Holmes was sentenced as a habitual offender, as he was previously convicted of armed robbery for two incidents occurring in August 1984 -- in which Holmes pleaded guilty and"immediately confessed."
In 2020, Holmes contacted the State Attorney’s Conviction Review Unit claiming he was “factually innocent” of the armed robbery of two people outside a convenience store, Pryor said in a statement.
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