A North Carolina man who received a life sentence for murder in 2011 is no longer behind bars. News outlets report 51-year-old Mark Carver left the Gaston County Jail on Tuesday. A Superior Court judge last week overturned Carver's conviction for the 2008 slaying of a 20-year-old student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, citing ineffective assistance by Carver's trial attorneys and questions about DNA evidence. Carver testified at a hearing in April that he didn't kill Ira Yarmolenko, the woman whose body was found on the banks of the Catawba River. Carver would get a new trial if the DA's appeal fails.

Source: Fox News June 11, 2019 21:56 UTC