Detroit artist and former Golden Gloves boxing champ Ray Gray released from prison after 48 years for a murder he insists he did not commit

4-time Golden Gloves boxing champion Ray Grey, the Detroit man who’s spent more than 48 years behind bars for a murder he’s insisted all along he did not commit, has been launched from a state jail in Muskegon.

As the results of a plea take care of the Wayne County Prosecutor’s workplace, Wayne County Circuit Courtroom Choose Margaret Van Houten vacated Grey’s first-degree homicide conviction Tuesday morning in a listening to through Zoom, and Grey pleaded no contest to a cost of second-degree homicide.

Van Houten then ordered his launch on time served “within the pursuits of justice.”

Grey, 69, walked out of jail Tuesday afternoon shortly after 2 p.m. to a joyous group of household and mates, together with his spouse, Barbara Rinehart Grey and his sister Phyllis Lengthy.

“It’s one of many happiest days of my life,” stated Grey. “I really feel blessed and grateful for the individuals who made this occur. Justice is usually not solely blind, however deaf, and you need to proceed to the touch it. Folks touched it and stored touching it, and now we’re right here. … This time the system labored.”

Grey and Barbara, who’ve been married since 1985, shared a tearful embrace with their household within the shadow of the penitentiary.

“We have been upset so many occasions that it is onerous to imagine,” stated Barbara.

In 1973, Grey, then a 21-year-old boxer considering turning professional, was convicted within the taking pictures loss of life of 23-year-old Military veteran Reuben Bryant, a heroin seller, throughout a theft of a Euclid Road condo on Detroit’s west aspect.

“This isn’t an exoneration,” Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy stated in an announcement. “Nonetheless, this case does current many questions that can’t be answered.”

“I really feel like a boxer whose nook has thrown within the towel, however he desires to combat on,” stated Grey. “The wrestle continues.”

This can be a growing story and shall be up to date.

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