So what if his friend said bring me my jump rope, and then the friend choked someone with the jump rope? He brought his friend a legal piece of property that belonged to his friend. It ended up being used in a murder, but there was nothing illegal happened until the shots were fired. If I drive my friend to a house and he kills someone, I'm not an accessory, even if I hand him his own gun. If I hand him my gun, different story. He drove to an off campus club, his friend retrieved his (the friend) gun from Miller's car, gave it to someone that committed murder. Tell me the crime there, without ignorantly just saying accessory to murder without knowing anything about the law.
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This is the issue - ignorance of the law. Lots of folks have something to say about this, but few are actually viewing it through a legal lens. And that’s the only lens that freaking matters.
I had no idea my post would create a lengthy thread. In a way, it is good, because as crazy as we all are, it seems we can at least respect the viewpoints of other posters. However, it seems like no one is going to change in how they view the situation, which is fine given its severity. Let’s just kick some Friar *** tomorrow.
Actually, I've modified my position some. I would accept the explanation that Miller is innocent but nobody has provided the proof. At this point, it seems we are either basing our opinions on either the police comments or the defense lawyer rather than actually facts.
How about a CRAZY update that makes no sense:
"The night before Thursday's game, a report published by The New York Times, citing an unidentified person, said a fourth player — freshman walk-on Kai Spears, who hasn’t played this season — was also at the scene of the shooting. The university, Spears and his family have called the report inaccurate and the family has hired an attorney."
Why hire an attorney over a false report that your son was at the scene especially since they aren't even charging anyone other than the main 2 people? Seems strange.
"The night before Thursday's game, a report published by The New York Times, citing an unidentified person, said a fourth player — freshman walk-on Kai Spears, who hasn’t played this season — was also at the scene of the shooting. The university, Spears and his family have called the report inaccurate and the family has hired an attorney."
Why hire an attorney over a false report that your son was at the scene especially since they aren't even charging anyone other than the main 2 people? Seems strange.
He dropped two friends off at a club, had to pick them back up, got a text from one of them, but didn’t read it? He just happened to show up right after the text in the middle of the incident? Yup, wrong place at the wrong time.
This is the driving force behind this controversy IMO. I really think for Miller, this was a don't ask, don't tell situation.
The University Administration,coaching staff lost all integrity in handling this situation and will never get it back. When Oates answer if he had contacted family of young girl he couldn’t say he did. Some coaches talk a good game but when they have to make the right and tough decisions they have no nads,backbone or integrity.
Alabama is potentially it first ever NC in basketball as well, so there's that.....
If anyone is still following this story, what do you think of this new article detailing the events of that night?
The writer seems a bit biased in favor of Miles and Davis in my opinion, but nonetheless some of the seemingly factual information reported paints an even more complicated picture than what we already had.
1. The police testimony that has been central to the reporting on the story and has pretty much been taken as the Word of God on how things happened in a lot of these discussions was apparently almost entirely a recounting of the initial statements Cedric Johnson made to police in the immediate aftermath. He hasn’t actually testified under oath yet, but the other surviving passenger of the Jeep has and although not necessarily disputing them, was also unable to corroborate important parts of his story.
2. Johnson was apparently recorded on surveillance footage having ample opportunity to drive away from the basketball players, but instead had some kind of meet up with an extremely shady character in a parking lot before circling back towards the area where Davis was in apparent contradiction to his story that he was looking for a way out.
3. Miles’ girlfriend was apparently involved in the previously reported fistfight and it seems like he may have been pulling her out of that rather than clearing her out of the path of a shooting he knew was about to commence as had been previously assumed.
This is going to be a mess to sort out at trial.
The writer seems a bit biased in favor of Miles and Davis in my opinion, but nonetheless some of the seemingly factual information reported paints an even more complicated picture than what we already had.
1. The police testimony that has been central to the reporting on the story and has pretty much been taken as the Word of God on how things happened in a lot of these discussions was apparently almost entirely a recounting of the initial statements Cedric Johnson made to police in the immediate aftermath. He hasn’t actually testified under oath yet, but the other surviving passenger of the Jeep has and although not necessarily disputing them, was also unable to corroborate important parts of his story.
2. Johnson was apparently recorded on surveillance footage having ample opportunity to drive away from the basketball players, but instead had some kind of meet up with an extremely shady character in a parking lot before circling back towards the area where Davis was in apparent contradiction to his story that he was looking for a way out.
3. Miles’ girlfriend was apparently involved in the previously reported fistfight and it seems like he may have been pulling her out of that rather than clearing her out of the path of a shooting he knew was about to commence as had been previously assumed.
This is going to be a mess to sort out at trial.