Lawsuit filed against the city of Mount Holly, investigators after wrongfully convicted man released from prison

GASTON COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A Gaston County man wrongfully convicted of murder is suing the investigators who put him behind bars for nearly a decade.

Mark Carver walked out of prison in 2019, eight years after being sentenced to life for the murder of UNC-Charlotte student Irina Yarmolenko.

Yarmolenko was found strangled on the banks of the Catawba River in 2008.

In 2022, Carver’s murder charge was dropped…

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