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Supporters of Charles McNeair are renewing calls for the governor to grant him clemency — and they’re referencing coverage from the local press, including a recent High Point Enterprise article, to amplify the urgency. According to the Enterprise, community leaders, family members, and even law-enforcement officials have added their voices to the push for McNeair’s release.
On September 12, it will be three years since a local Lexington resident had a clemency petition filed by Attorney Jamie Lau from Duke University’s Wrongful Conviction Clinic - and he’s still waiting on an answer.
For Lexington High School senior Cristian Hoffman, education hasn’t just been a path—it’s been a lifeline. And this week, it became something more: a bridge between the past and future hope.
As a citizen of North Carolina, and an advocate for Charles McNeair who was awaiting clemency, I was extremely confused and shocked because it was my belief Governor Cooper was a man who valued justice and cared about those incarcerated in NC Prisons.
For most of the last five years, Charles McNeair was home—or at least, close to it—in the Davidson Correctional Center. He’d grown up in Lexington and was arrested there in 1979 for a crime he says he didn’t commit.
