Gray v. Kelly

Chief Justice Roberts, Circuit Justice.

Ricky Gray was convicted of five counts of capital murder in Virginia. He was sentenced to death on two of the counts and life imprisonment on the remaining three. After his convictions and sentences were affirmed on direct appeal, Gray filed a petition for state postconviction relief. The Virginia Supreme Court granted the petition in part, ordering vacatur of one of the convictions for which Gray was sentenced to life imprisonment. Gray v. Warden of Sussex I State Prison, 281 Va. 308, 304, 707 S. E. 2d 275, 280-281 (2011). But the court denied relief…