The lawyer in the case has helped other wrongfully accused people before, like Kenneth Kagonyera, who Gov. Cooper pardoned recently.

Asheville pressured him into falsely pleading guilty to a murder, by faking evidence and destroying real evidence #ncpol https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article247918730.html
In this new Raleigh case, none of the people were convicted since the fake evidence got exposed in time. But they still spent months in jail or lost lots of money for bail. Some got fired, one was a cancer patient, and one was jailed just days after his daughter was born #ncpol
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