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Late Wednesday, Governor Roy Cooper announced he had commuted the sentences of six people in North Carolina prisons and granted pardons of innocence to two others. According to the governor's office, the clemency actions followed a review by the Office of Executive Clemency, the Office of General Counsel, and the governor.

The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission reviewed the two cases over nine years.

North Carolina Superior Court Judge Arnold Ogden Jones II has been charged with trying to bribe an FBI agent to collect text messages between two phone…