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Former basketball players in Alabama, Brandon Miller, Darius Miles, see that the case of wrong death is over

Former basketball players in Alabama, Brandon Miller, Darius Miles, see that the case of wrong death is over

The process of wrong death brought against the former Alabama Basketball Players, Brandon Miller and Darius MilesTogether with the defendant colleague Michael “Buzz” Davis, he ended with a settlement, according to the federal judicial documents. All parties agreed to give up the case with prejudices and a confidence fund for the benefit of Jamea Jonae Harris was set up.

After the mediation, the parties submitted a common rejection motion with prejudice, and US district judge Anna M. Manasco ordered the dismissal and approved the confidence on Monday. The order notes that all parties are responsible for their own costs.

The judicial documents did not specify how much money they were in confidence and no other details.

The applicants’ representation refused the comments. Also, Darius Miles’s lawyer did not comment, and the representation of each of the other defendants did not respond immediately to the comment requests from al.com.

Harris was shot and killed in the early hours of the morning, on January 15, 2023, near the strip in Tuscaloosa, following a dispute between Miles, Davis and Harris’s lover, Cedric Johnson.

Miller, now in the second year of a four-year contract with Charlotte Hornets in NBA that could pay over $ 49 million in guaranteed money According to spitHe led to the strip that night, while he was a walk with Miles.

A police investigator confessed to the court that Miles sent a message to his teammate, Miller, requesting the “joint”, which the investigator confessed that he had meant Miles’ weapon, which he had left in the back seat of Miller.

Later, on Grace Street, the weapon was taken from behind Miller’s car, on a judicial testimony. A police investigator confessed that Miles said Davis had recovered Miles’s weapon behind the car. Davis, who was not in the team, is accused of firing at Harris’s lover, Cedric Johnson. The police say Johnson also fired.

Lawyer Jim Standridge, representing Miller, said in 2023 that Miller was already about to pick up his teammate, Miles, when Miller received the text. Also, Standridge also said that Miller had never reached the weapon, was not involved in exchange and “never knew that an illegal activity will take place.”

Miller was not accused of a crime. A great jury was accused of Miles and Davis under charges of capital murder and both Miles and Davis are waiting for trial.

The federal process was filed by Harris’s estate, led by her mother, heard Decarla.

“Miles, Davis and Miller knew or should have known that bringing a dangerous weapon in a dispute and the discharge said that the weapon will probably lead to the injury to those around them,” read the initial process, filed in October 2023 in the North District of Alabama.

Miller’s lawyers submitted a rejection motion, arguing that Miller did not hold, load or dismiss the weapon and did not hand over to the eventual shooter. Former Judge Scott Coogler denied the motion, writing in an opinion of April 2024 that a reasonable jury “could conclude that it was predictable for someone to use firearm to hurt someone else.”

Miles and Davis were closed without bonds from the incident, waiting for the trial for capital murder charges. The process of Davis’s jury is scheduled to start on May 5 in Tuscaloosa, while once it has not yet been officially established on kilometers.

Miles was Reflected again the obligation by the judge of the Court of the Tuscaloosa circuit, Daniel Prruet in August. Miles’ lawyers in the criminal case claimed that Johnson initiated the incident and that Miles provided the protection weapon. Davis’s lawyer John Robbins argued self -defense on behalf of Davis. Prosecutors said Davis shot first.

The lawyer of the Tuscaloosa District, Hays Webb, told reporters after that August hearing that he hopes that the Miles case will go to trial in 2025.

“I’m full of hope,” Webb said. “But I cannot say. As the judge mentioned, everyone has to do with many cases, obviously. The judge mentioned in the courtroom that he has two cases of capital murder in the courtroom, which are older than this.”