A Broward County man who spent 34 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit will receive $1.7 million in compensation for the time he lost.
Sidney Holmes was sentenced to 400 years in prison when he was 23 years old after being wrongly convicted of serving as the getaway driver in a 1988 robbery near Fort Lauderdale.
“I thought, you know, that was it,” he recounted. “I was going to die in prison.”…