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Michael Rothstein
Former Alabama basketball participant Darius Miles is scheduled to face trial for capital homicide starting Dec. 1 in Alabama Circuit Courtroom, greater than two years after he was arrested in reference to the deadly taking pictures of Jamea Harris in Tuscaloosa.
Miles, 23, was accused of “aiding and abetting” co-defendant Michael Davis, who was discovered responsible of capital homicide. Davis was sentenced to life in jail with out the potential of parole and is within the technique of interesting the decision.
Davis was discovered responsible of firing into Harris’ Jeep throughout a shootout with Harris’ boyfriend, Cedric Johnson. A bullet struck and killed Harris whereas she sat within the entrance passenger seat. In Alabama, taking pictures and killing somebody whereas they’re in a automobile results in a capital homicide cost.
Prosecutors say that Miles offered Davis, who was his childhood good friend, with the gun. In Davis’ trial, protection attorneys argued that Davis was defending himself from Johnson when he fired the gun.
The state beforehand had taken the dying penalty off the desk for Miles. He has been held with out bond in Tuscaloosa County Jail since his arrest on Jan. 15, 2023 — the day he was faraway from the Alabama basketball group.
Miles performed 53 video games for Alabama with two begins, averaging 4.2 factors per sport.
Charlotte Hornets ahead Brandon Miller, a former Alabama standout, was amongst those that testified in Davis’ trial. Miller and Miles had texted within the half-hour main as much as the taking pictures, and Miller had pushed his automobile to a bar in Tuscaloosa, the place he was going to choose up Miles. Miller testified he was not conscious Miles had put his gun in Miller’s automobile till he arrived. Miller has not been accused of wrongdoing or charged with any crime and has cooperated with the investigation.
It isn’t but identified whether or not Miller or some other present or former members of the Alabama males’s basketball program shall be referred to as to testify in Miles’ trial. Within the Davis trial, the state referred to as Miller and now-Arizona level guard Jaden Bradley, who had been a member of the Crimson Tide in 2023. The state additionally listed ex-Alabama group supervisor Cooper Lee — who was within the passenger seat of Miller’s automobile — and former Crimson Tide basketball participant Nick Pringle as potential witnesses within the Davis trial, however neither was referred to as to testify.
Miller and Bradley testified in Davis’ trial that Davis had been across the Alabama basketball group typically, primarily with Miles, regardless that he had no official affiliation with this system.