Randall Miller Asks Appeals Court to End Probation Three Years Early
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Randall Miller, the director who was sentenced to a year in jail after the fatal train crash on the set of “Midnight Rider,” has asked a Georgia appeals court to terminate his probation early. Miller was ordered to serve 10 years of probation after pleading guilty in 2015 to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the crash that killed camera assistant Sarah Jones and injured six others. While he is on probation, Miller is forbidden from working as a director or having any other role on set where he would be in charge of safety. In 2020, prosecutors asked that Miller’s probation be revoked, after they learned that he had shot a new movie, “Higher Grounds.” The judge in the case, Anthony Harrison, declined to send Miller back to jail, but warned him not to make any more films for the balance of his probation.