Florida taxpayers paid $1.72 million to compensate 'wrongly incarcerated' Sidney Holmes. Did the state get it right?
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org
The State v. Sidney Lamar Holmes is finally over. After 34 years behind bars, he’s now two years out of prison. And with Gov. Ron DeSantis’s signature this month on a special appropriation to compensate Holmes, unanimously passed by the Legislature, Florida’s taxpayers are out $1.72 million.
The state paid Holmes, 59, after determining he was “wrongly incarcerated” for a June 1988 armed robbery in Lauderhill for which he was convicted.
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