CENTENNIAL, Colo.—Attorneys are trying to spare a convicted murderer from getting the death penalty by bringing witnesses to testify that a violent upbringing adversely contributed to his moral development.
Arapahoe County jurors convicted 23-year-old Robert Ray in the deaths of two people, including a witness set to testify against him in a murder trial.
Rays’s defense attorneys called a forensic psychologist to the stand Wednesday to testify that Ray had witnessed at least three slayings by the time he was 7 in his Chicago neighborhood.
Prosecutors say Ray planned and ordered the 2005 killings of Javad Marshall-Fields and Vivian Wolfe. Ray’s accomplice, Sir Mario Owens, is on death row for the killings.
Jurors will hear another week of testimony before deciding Ray’s fate.
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Information from: The Aurora Sentinel,
