The final prosecution witness, a state medical examiner, will testify tomorrow morning about the suffocation deaths of the Tucker/Baskerville family.

In a surprise move today, defense attorneys asked Judge Richard D. Taylor Jr. to allow a courtroom identification of Ricky Javon Gray by Detective Howard Peterman, who interviewed both Gray and Ray Joseph Dandridge in Philadelphia.

The jury was sent out, and Gray was brought to the doorway of the inmate entrance to the courtroom. Taylor instructed Gray not to try to communicate with anyone in the courtroom when the jury was brought back in.

But prosecutors objected to the courtroom ID, saying that the jury would see Gray—dressed in prison garb and handcuffs—as the “monster” compared to Dandridge, dressed in a black dress shirt and slacks.
Taylor decided not to allow Gray back in.