Gray v. Commonwealth

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

CHIEF JUSTICE MINTON

A circuit court jury convicted James Anthony Gray of two counts of murder for intentionally killing his parents, James and Vivian Gray, and one count of tampering with physical evidence. He was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for each murder and five years’ imprisonment for tampering with physical evidence, running consecutively for a total of forty-five years’ imprisonment. He appeals the resulting judgment to this Court as a matter of right.1

Gray presents several claims of error on appeal, and we will address each of them. Most notably, he…