Former Alabama basketball player Darius Miles and Michael Davis were officially indicted on capital murder charges on Friday, according to ESPN.
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA - MARCH 05: Darius Miles #2 of the Alabama Crimson Tide drives with the ball against the LSU Tigers during a game at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on March 05, 2022 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Former Alabama basketball player Darius Miles and Michael Davis were officially indicted on capital murder charges on Friday,Miles and Davis were arrested on Jan. 15.
Miles and Davis, along with others, reportedly left a bar in Tuscaloosa late on Jan. 14 when an altercation broke out between Davis and Harris’ boyfriend, Cedric Johnson, near Harris’ vehicle. Miles said he returned to get Davis and end the verbal altercation, but that he saw a gun being passed inside the car as he was doing so. Johnson has said that wasn’t true, and that it was food being passed around.
The"capital" designation was added due to the victim being killed in a vehicle. The charge carries the possibility of a death sentence in Alabama. "While we are not surprised by the indictment based on the reality that a person accused of a crime is not allowed to present any evidence to the grand jury, we are nonetheless disappointed that the Government presented this case to the grand jury as capital murder considering the evidence uncovered during our investigation and the obvious weaknesses in the Government's case brought to light during the preliminary hearing," Miles' lawyer, Mary Turner,Miller has not been...
The SEC Player of the Year and projected lottery pick has largely stayed quiet about the shooting, too, and declined to talk about the charges on Friday in Nashville despite being asked repeatedly following their 72-49 win over Mississippi State.He no-comments again. Clear he’s going to stick with that on all things related to that case.
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