sentences:  In 1980 in "Chavis v. State of North Carolina", 637 F.2d 213 (4th Cir., 1980), the convictions were overturned by the federal appeals court, on the grounds that the prosecutor and the trial judge had both violated the defendants' constitutional rights.They were not retried.In 2012 the surviving members of the Ten were pardoned by Governor Beverly Perdue.