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Charles McNeair started 2025 the same way as the last 45 new years—behind prison walls. Many of his supporters had hoped things would be different by now, but former Gov. Roy Cooper left office without granting McNeair’s petition for clemency.  […]

Michael Hewlett is a courts and law reporter for The Assembly. He was previously a legal affairs reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal and has won two Henry Lee Weathers Freedom of Information Awards.

Anne Blythe, a former reporter for The News & Observer, has reported on courts, criminal justice, and an array of topics in North Carolina for more than three decades.