• Mark Carver, wrongfully convicted of the 2008 murder of Ira Yarmolenko, is suing those involved in his prosecution. • The lawsuit claims police withheld exculpatory evidence, including witness accounts of other individuals near the crime scene. • The charges against Carver were ultimately dismissed in 2022 due to insufficient evidence.

A man who was wrongfully convicted of murder in the 2008 death of a UNC Charlotte student has accused the people involved in his prosecution of using fabricated DNA evidence to convict him of the crime.

Gaston County resident Mark Carver filed a lawsuit earlier this month in federal court. The lawsuit names as defendants the city of Mount Holly; Andrea Williams, the executor of the estate of former SBI lab analyst Karen Winningham; then-Crime Lab Ana

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