MIAMI — After spending nearly 35 years behind bars in South Florida, Sidney Holmes will be a free man.
The 57-year-old was exonerated Monday after a wrongful conviction for a 1988 armed robbery in Broward County. Family members caressed each other as they shed tears of joy in Courtroom 6870 of the judicial complex in Fort Lauderdale following Circuit Judge Edward Merrigan’s order authorizing Holmes to be let out of prison.
He is expected to be released from the county’s Main Jail within hours. He had been moved there from Everglades Correctional Institution in West Miami-Dade.
