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Black Man Wrongfully Convicted, Freed After 34 Years In Jail by truthfully360: 1:01pm On Mar 15, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BuWArVEubA

A man, Sidney Holmes, was released after serving more than 34 years of a 400-year prison sentence after the state of Florida reinvestigated the case and determined that he did not commit armed robbery.

According to abcNEWS on Tuesday, a thorough re-investigation of the 1988 armed robbery case that led to Holmes' conviction "raised reasonable doubts about his guilt," according to Broward County State Attorney Harold F. Pryor.

Pryor said that Holmes was arrested in October 1988 for allegedly being the driver for two unidentified men who robbed a man and woman outside a store at gunpoint. The car of the male victim was stolen by two unidentified men.

In April 1989, he was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to 400 years in prison. At the time, prosecutors asked the judge to sentence him to 825 years in prison.

The Conviction Review Unit determined that there is no evidence linking Holmes to the robbery other than an incorrect identification of him and the vehicle used in the robbery.

Credit: abcNEWS

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-serving-400-year-prison-sentence-exonerated-after/story%3fid=97849931


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Re: Black Man Wrongfully Convicted, Freed After 34 Years In Jail by Horus(m): 2:38pm On Mar 15, 2023
Give him 1 million $ for every year he lost
Shame on those that convicted him
Re: Black Man Wrongfully Convicted, Freed After 34 Years In Jail by Weknowbetter: 6:31pm On Mar 15, 2023
400 years for allegedly being a get away driver for a robbery? His cohorts identified him ? Victims identified him? If not you couldn't prove a thing and had no case. 34 years for being a poor black male
Re: Black Man Wrongfully Convicted, Freed After 34 Years In Jail by ISellBeer: 6:33pm On Mar 15, 2023
Too bad
What about the other two thieves?
I need update on them.
Evil things they have done to blacks in US are VERY many.
Where will he start from?
F**k dem all
Re: Black Man Wrongfully Convicted, Freed After 34 Years In Jail by mmadu5(m): 6:46pm On Mar 15, 2023
chai this one bad oooo
Re: Black Man Wrongfully Convicted, Freed After 34 Years In Jail by imagrg(m): 8:45pm On Mar 15, 2023
Racism. undecided

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