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Updated December 17, 2020 7:04 p.m. EST By Matthew Burns, WRAL.com senior producer/politics editor, & Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter Raleigh, N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday issued pardons to five men who spent years in prison for crimes they didn t commit. We must continue to work to reform our justice system and acknowledge when people have been wrongly convicted, Cooper said in a statement. I have carefully reviewed the facts in each of these cases, and, while I cannot give these men back the time they served, I am granting them Pardons of Innocence in the hope that they might be better able to move forward in their lives. ....