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    Forest Hill Park bridge named for slain Harvey family

    A new pedestrian bridge in Forest Hill Park will be named for the family of Bryan and Kathryn Harvey, who were murdered on New Year's Day 2006.

    The Richmond City Council voted 9-0 last night to name the Harvey Family Bridge, which is scheduled to be installed over Reedy Creek and dedicated this spring along with the park's restored lake.

    In naming the bridge, the council overrode a city-code provision that says city facilities shall not be named for multiple people, and it sidestepped complaints that the city was placing higher value on the Harveys than others who have been victims of homicide.

    Councilman E. Martin Jewell, a co-patron of the naming ordinance, said the difference is that a community group, the Friends of Forest Hill Park, provided $500 for a plaque honoring the Harveys. He said he believes the council would consider similar requests to honor other crime victims, but "nobody else is stepping forward here."

    "They're all sad, and they're all impactful," Jewell said of homicides. However, with the Harveys, "here's a family that was known and loved in their neighborhood, and they were also known and loved across the city."

    Bryan Harvey worked for the Henrico County school system and was a popular, longtime musician with The Dads, House of Freaks and NrG Krysys. His wife was an owner of World of Mirth, a gift and toy shop in Carytown. The couple had two daughters, Stella, 9, and Ruby, 4.

    All four family members were slain in the basement of their home on West 31st Street in Woodland Heights as part of a killing rampage by Ricky Javon Gray and his nephew Ray Joseph Dandridge. Gray awaits execution, while Dandridge is serving life in prison without parole.

    The pedestrian bridge will replace one destroyed in 2004 by the remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston. It and the restored lake are to be dedicated May 22.

    http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2...21007-ar-6534/

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    080524 Gray v. Warden

    Virginia Supreme Court rejects appeal

    RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Supreme Court has rejected appeals by two death row inmates.

    Ricky Jovan Gray was convicted of five counts of capital murder in the New Year's Day 2006 slayings of a Richmond couple and their two young daughters. He received two death sentences and three life prison terms.

    In Norfolk, Anthony B. Juniper was sentenced to death for the 2004 murders of his former girlfriend, her two children and her brother.

    The Supreme Court ruled Friday that one of Gray's life sentences should be thrown out because his lawyer failed to raise a double-jeopardy objection. But it rejected all his other claims and allowed the other sentences to stand.

    The justices found no merit in several claims raised by Juniper.

    http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor...h_Row_Appeals/

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    Execution date set for Harvey family killer but appeal likely

    A June 16 execution date was set this morning for Ricky Jovan Gray for his role in the slaying of four members of a Woodland Heights family on Jan. 1, 2006.

    The date will almost certainly be stayed, however, because his lawyer, Jon Sheldon, said he intends to file an appeal in federal court. A spokesman for the attorney general’s office agreed the date could be stayed by federal court.

    Bryan Harvey, 49, his wife Kathryn, 39, and their daughters Stella, 9, and Ruby, 4, were found murdered in their home on West 31st Street.

    Death sentences were imposed against Gray for each of two capital murders of a person under the age of 14 by a person 21 or older. He was given life sentences in each of three other capital-murder convictions.

    Gray's accomplice and nephew, Ray Dandridge, is serving a life sentence. The deaths were part of a killing rampage carried out by Gray and Dandridge.

    http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/l...ke-ar-1034689/

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    On June 13, 2011, Gray filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/vir...v00630/267378/

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, on appeal from denial of habeas by the Virginia Supreme Court, Gray's petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis DENIED.

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    On April 27, 2012, Gray's habeas petition was dismissed in Federal District Court.

    http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal...630/267378/68/

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    On August 29, 2012, Gray filed an appeal in the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals over the denial of his habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir...urts/ca4/12-5/

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    On May 15, 2013, the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral argument in Gray's appeal over the District Court's denial of his habeas petition.

    http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/calendar/05142013.htm

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    Convicted murderer of 7 people appeals death penalty

    The lawyers defending a convicted murder are putting together a case to keep him off death row. Ricky Gray killed seven people, including the Harvey family, who had two little girls.

    For seven years, the convicted murderer has sat on death row for a killing spree that included two children.

    Lawyers say they will try to prove that Gray's lawyers were insufficient when it came to defending him during the trial and appeal process.

    Even though this is Gray's last attempt, he won't be in the courthouse as his lawyers make their arguments in front of a three-judge panel.

    "State and federal law requires that appellate court review the process by which they were sentenced to death, to ensure minimum safeguards that are in place have been satisfied," said NBC12 legal analyst Steve Benjamin.

    It's a series of murders that grabbed national attention because of the brutality and number of victims. The youngest were sisters Stella and Ruby Harvey.

    Ricky Gray, with the help of Ray Dandridge, also killed the girls' parents, Bryan and Kathryn. Then they set the Woodland Heights home on fire.

    A week later, Percyell Tucker, his wife Mary and their daughter, Ashley Baskerville - who was an accomplice in the Harveys' murder - were also killed.

    Gray was sentenced to death for the girls' murders.

    Benjamin says if he loses this appeal, it would take an action by the U.S. Supreme Court or governor to prevent it - but such action would be rare.

    "In this case, there is no claim of innocence. There is no presentation of the mitigating factors, such as mental illness," said Benjamin.

    Benjamin predicts if Gray's lawyers can't make their case, the execution could happen by the end of the year.

    Gray's case is expected to be heard in the Court of Appeals this Wednesday. Ray Dandridge, the other man convicted for the murders, is serving a life sentence.

    http://www.nbc12.com/story/22240163/...-death-penalty
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    I wonder why prosecutors didn't seek the death penalty for Dandridge as well.

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