Russell Leroy Gray

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	52 years
Years Imprisoned:	3.83
Year Crime:	1986
Year Convicted:	1987
Year Cleared:	1990
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Virginia
County or Region of Crime:	Richmond
City of Crime:	Richmond
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Russell Leroy Gray was wrongly convicted in 1987 of murder in Richmond, Virginia based on eyewitness error by the prosecution's primary witness. The witness later recanted and identified another man, who was also identified by other witnesses who hadn't testified at Gray's trial. Based on the new evidence Gray was pardoned by Virginia's governor in April 1990 and released from prison."
Conviction Caused By:	Eyewitness error by the prosecution's primary witness.
Innocence Proved By:	"Actual culprit identified by the prosecution's main witness after he recanted his identification of Russell Gray, and other witnesses who didn't testify at Gray's trial corroborated the witnesses identification. Gray was pardoned by Virginia's governor in April 1990."
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	20
Age When Released:	24
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996 pb ed. with new forward, 308 (Coyright 1992)"
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Russell Leroy Gray

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

52 years

Years Imprisoned:

3.83

Year Crime:

1986

Year Convicted:

1987

Year Cleared:

1990

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Virginia

County or Region of Crime:

Richmond

City of Crime:

Richmond

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Eyewitness error by the prosecution's primary witness.

Innocence Proved By:

"Actual culprit identified by the prosecution's main witness after he recanted his identification of Russell Gray, and other witnesses who didn't testify at Gray's trial corroborated the witnesses identification. Gray was pardoned by Virginia's governor in April 1990."

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

20

Age When Released:

24

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996 pb ed. with new forward, 308 (Coyright 1992)"

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