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When Raymond Felton Gray was sent to prison for life on a murder conviction nearly 50 years ago platform shoes were the fashion rage and Watergate scandal-plagued President Richard Nixon was still in office.
On Tuesday, Gray officially became a free man following a plea deal that allowed him to plead no contest to a lesser murder offense.
Gray, 69, has been incarcerated since May 1973 after he was convicted of first-degree murder for the slaying of a reputed Detroit drug dealer, Ruben Bryant, in a Detroit apartment months earlier.
Gray, who was hoping for an exoneration, has spent 48 years of his life behind Michigan prison walls. He has tried for years to appeal the conviction. He walked out of the Muskegon Correctional Facility Tuesday afternoon a free man.
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41 charges filed in Flint water crisis investigation, officials say
Nine people, including ex-Gov. Rick Snyder, have been charged
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FLINT, Mich. – Forty-one charges have been filed in a Flint water investigation, according to officials.
Nine people have been charged, including former Gov. Rick Snyder. While Snyder has the most high profile, he was charged with the least compared to the other ex-officials.
“When an entire city is victimized by the negligence and indifference of those in power, it deserves an uncompromising investigation, said Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud.
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Ray Gray.
Regarding a possible commutation of Gray’s life sentence, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy tells Channel 4, “I would be fully on board with that.” If you’re a regular reader of this rag, you know the heartrending tale of Ray Gray, the Michigan man stuck behind bars for nearly 50 years for a crime he insists he did not commit. In the early 1970s on the west side of Detroit, Gray was a budding young artist and a four-time Golden Gloves boxing champ on the precipice of turning pro. His future, it seemed, was bright. But then, he and his supporters say, he was wrongfully convicted of murder. For nearly five decades, Gray has maintained his innocence in the 1973 shooting death of Reuben Bryant.