A Florida man freed in 2020 from nearly four decades behind bars after DNA evidence cleared him of rape and murder will now receive monetary compensation for that time lost. The.
Leo Schofield will be transferred to a prison with a transitional program. He has maintained innocence in his wife’s murder in 1987, and another man has since confessed to the killing.
Florida prosecutors initially requested Sidney Holmes, pictured, be given an 825-year sentence to ensure he never left prison for a crime that prosecutors now believe he did not commit.