Broward County, FL – A Florida man who spent 34 years in prison for a robbery he allegedly didn’t commit will receive $1.7 million in compensation after his conviction was overturned due to unreliable eyewitness evidence.
Sidney Holmes, now 59, was convicted at age 23 for allegedly being the getaway driver in a 1988 armed robbery near Fort Lauderdale, despite no physical evidence linking him to the crime.
According to reports, Holmes was sentenced to 400 years based primarily on a vague witness description of a yellow Oldsmobile, a vehicle that was among the most common cars in America at the time…