NORTH CAROLINA (WGHP) — Governor Roy Cooper has issued pardons for two men who were wrongfully convicted.
One of them is from the Piedmont Triad.
Mark Crotts was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in Alamance County in 1992. He was acquitted on both counts five years later after a judicial finding that the government violated his constitutional rights at trial.
Cooper also pardoned Darron Carmon, a Pitt County pastor who was wrongfully convicted of armed robbery as a teenager and spent nearly a decade in prison.
Cooper also commuted the sentences of six people serving time in prison.
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