re: Darius Miles Charged With Capital Murder In Shooting

(from patch.com)


Attorneys For Darius Miles Claim DA's Office Withholding Evidence

Defense attorneys for former Alabama basketball player Darius Miles claim the Tuscaloosa County DA's Office is actively withholding evidence

In a motion filed in Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court on Tuesday, the Turner Law Group motioned that the court issue an order compelling the DA's office to provide the specified evidence within seven days of the order being issued.

Defense attorney Mary Turner argues that Miles was arrested and charged with capital murder within 15 hours of the shooting. In the interim period that followed, the Turner Law Group says it has sought security camera video from businesses near the shooting, only for business owners to inform them that the video evidence had been turned over to law enforcement.

Business owners also reportedly said law enforcement informed them that the Turner Law Group could obtain the video evidence from police. What's more, investigators for the Turner Law Group who were seeking to obtain video from one of the businesses was threatened with the possibility of arrest for criminal trespassing.

On Jan. 20 — less than a week after the fatal shooting — the Turner Law Group says it requested certain evidence from the District Attorney's Office, only to be told that the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit had not finished its investigation. This, despite charging Miles and Davis with capital murder the day of the shooting.

In response, the Turner Law Group issued subpoenas to various businesses near the shooting to obtain security camera footage from Jan. 14 – 15. This included Unique Bar, along with video from the City of Tuscaloosa and the University of Alabama.

However, the owner of Unique reportedly told defense attorneys that he could not comply with the subpoena because his equipment failed. Turner then points out that, prior to the equipment failure, the owner stated that law enforcement officers were able to secure video footage.

Prior to the preliminary hearing for Davis and Miles in February, the Turner Law Group on Feb. 13 contacted the District Attorney’s Office to request to view video from Unique Bar and the City of Tuscaloosa, who both stated their video footage was delivered to the DA's Office prior to the preliminary hearing.

Turner says the District Attorney’s Office refused this request. Three days later, the Tuscaloosa law firm made a similar request regarding footage from the University of Alabama that had been delivered to the DA's office. This request was also refused.

It sounds like it. This case is trending towards Miles and Davis in positive and I wouldn't be shocked if they will drop the case before long. Too many mistakes were made.

But I was told by tRant that Tuscaloosa PD was covering up evidence in order for Brandon Miller to play basketball.

Also, it seems both parties desired a shootout.
Since they were both armed, bullets flying from each direction.

So neither Jamea's thug bf or Michael Davis shot at one another?

You said it seemed like both parties desired a shootout and I just said false.

I don't think Miles & Davis wanted a shootout at all but that's what it led to.

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You said it seemed like both parties desired a shootout and I just said false. I don't think Miles & Davis wanted a shootout at all but that's what it led to.

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This feels “overly optimistic.” If Davis didn’t want a shootout, he wouldn’t have asked for the gun and would have just gotten in Brandon’s car to go home. Ridiculous to say a person “didn’t want a shootout” after they purposely armed themselves and engaged the other party with a loaded weapon.

Whatever you say bro.

That just makes it even more ridiculous to say they weren’t looking for a shootout. They got out of Brandon’s car with a loaded weapon ready to fire and approached another vehicle that they knew also had a loaded weapon ready to fire? That’s the very definition of “looking for a shootout.”

Is Patch the only news source covering the story?

Or is the story now irrelevant because Alabama basketball is over?