GREG GRAY HAS BEEN IN PRISON
FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS.
ONE OF THE LONGEST-SERVING
INMATES.
THERE ARE ATTORNEYS, AND
ADVOCATES WHO BELIEVE RAY
SHOULD BE FREE.
NOT ONLY BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN IN
SO LONG BUT THEY BELIEVE HE IS
INNOCENT
>> Devin: TONIGHT IN A MAJOR
REPORT THERE IS A DEVELOPMENT
THAT COULD SET HIM FREE.
>> Woman: HE DOES NOT DESERVE
THIS PLEASE LET HIM BE FREE.
>> Reporter: FOR DECADES
BARBARA REINHARDT GRAY HAS
DREAMED ABOUT THE DAY HER
HUSBAND WALKED OUT OF PRISON A
FREE MAN.
THEY MET BACK IN THE 70s WHEN
SHE WAS TEACHING ART AT JACKSON
PRISON.
THE MAN WOULD BECOME HER
HUSBAND WAS SUCH A TALENT HE
TOOK OVER TEACHING THE CLASS.
ND HAS BEEN BUILDING AND THIS
IS WITH WONDER EVER SINCE. THE TALENTED PRISON ARTIST IS
THE TALENTED PRISON ARTIST IS
JUST A PART OF RAY GRAYS STORY.
HE WAS CONVICTED OF
FIRST-DEGREE MURDER IN A
ROBBERY AND MURDER OF A DRUG
DEALER.
DESPITE THE FACT THERE WAS NO
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE CONNECTING
RAY WITH THE CRIME.
THEY TOLD THE JUDGE HE WAS AT
HOME WHEN THE CRIME OCCURRED.
ONE WITNESS SAID SHEM THOUGHT
THE RAIN WAS THE ORDER.
AND THE JUDGE SENTENCED HIM TO
LIFE IN PRISON.
OVER YEARS DEVELOPMENT RAN IN
RAYS’.
FAVOR OTHER CAME FORWARD EVEN
AN ACCOMPLICE IN THE ACTUAL
CRIME.
HE PASSED A LIE DETECTOR TEST
AND OF THE MATTER.
AND RAY STAYED BEHIND BARS. >
Man: HE NEEDS THE RECOGNITION
OF A KIND GENTLE TALENTED MAN. WHO HAS SUFFERED SINCE FEBRUARY
WHO HAS SUFFERED SINCE FEBRUARY
1973 FOR SOMETHING HE HAD
ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY NOTHING
TO DO WITH.
>> Reporter: BILL PROCTOR WAS A
LONGTIME REPORTER FOR CHANNEL
7. HE WORKS ON INNOCENT CASES
PROJECTS LIKE RAY’S.
OF THE MANY CASES THIS ONE BRINGS ON HIM THE MOST.
BRINGS ON HIM THE MOST.
IN PART BECAUSE GRAY WAS A
PROMISING YOUNG BOXER HAD NO
CRIMINAL RECORD.
>> Man: ALMOST 5 DECADES OF
THIS MAN’S LIFE.
THAT HAD ESSENTIALLY BEEN
STOLEN.
>> Reporter: RAY’S ART AS GIVEN
LOOK AT HIS CASE, BUT THE CELL
HEALTH REMAINED SHUT TIGHT.
EVEN THE DIRECTOR OF THE CRIME
WHO IS CONVINCED.
THE INTEGRITY UNIT LOOKED AT
THE CASE AND SAID THEY COULD
NOT CONFIRM GRAY’S CLAIM OF
INNOCENCE. THE ONLY PROBLEM A LOT OF THE
THE ONLY PROBLEM A LOT OF THE
KEY PLAYERS ARE DEAD.
AND NEARLY 50 YEARS HE IS READY
FOR ONE OF THE LONGEST-SERVING
INMATES TO GO FREE. > Woman:
IN LOOKING AT THAT AND READING
AT EVERYTHING MY TEAM FELT THIS
WAY AS WELL.
WE THINK THIS IS A GOOD
CANDIDATE FOR CONVOCATION.
FOR MANY REASONS.
ALTHOUGH CLAIMS OF INNOCENCE WE
BELIEVE THIS IS A CASE WE ARE
PUSHING VERY HARD TO SUPPORT
ANY CLAIM OF COMMUTATION AND
THAT WOULD BE FULLY ON BOARD
WITH THAT.
>> Woman: I WAS DELIGHTED TO
HEAR THAT.
I THINK THAT RAY WOULD REALLY,
REALLY LIKES TO GET HIS
CONVICTION REVERSED.
BECAUSE HE TRULY IS INNOCENT.
BUT LET’S FACE IT.
AT SOME POINT WALKING OUT OF
PRISON ONE WAY OR ANOTHER IS
IMPORTANT TO YOU, YOU SHOULD
TAKE IT HOW IT COMES.
>> Devin: IT IS GREAT NEWS FOR
THE ARMY THAT HAS STOOD BY RAY
ALL THESE YEARS.
>> Woman: I HOPE IT MEANS ARE
ATTORNEYS DEBORAH SILVER AND
BILL CAMORSKI AND THE GOVERNOR.
WILL FINALLY BE ATTENTION. AND LET HIM OUT.
AND LET HIM OUT.
HOWEVER THEY DO IT, I DON’T
CARE.
AND I DON’T THINK HE DOES.
HE WILL FIGHT TO PROVE HIS
INNOCENCE ONCE HE GETS OUT.
BUT HE WILL NOT CONFESS TO
SOMETHING HE DID NOT DO.
>> Devin: NOW WHAT?
THE COMMUTATION APPLICATION HAS
BEEN FILED WITH THE PAROLE
BOARD BY A NEW YORK BAR OWNER
WHO DECIDED TO BECOME PART OF