re: New ESPN investigative report on the murder of Jamea Harris/Brandon Miller situation.

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There’s a difference between a DA not having enough evidence to charge someone, and “saying he didn’t do anything criminal.”

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Considering the statements by Millers attorney, the statements by the T-Town police, the statements by Tuscaloosa DA , the video evidence, the timeline presented by the ESPN article… it certainly appears that Brandon Miller not only didn’t do anything wrong, he’s actually lucky that he wasn’t shot himself … sitting in his car!

Miles apparently knew something might go down.. he grabbed his girlfriend and moved away. Meanwhile, Miller just sat in his car… so common sense would say he didn’t know what was about to happen. He almost got caught in the crossfire himself.

I’m starting to think a lot of you would be happy if he too had been killed. Then y’all could have really smeared him!

Despite how badly you guys want him to be guilty of something, all the evidence we have at this moment points to the fact that he isn’t guilty of anything. I know y’all hate that

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Actually the DA in Tuscaloosa said he didn’t do anything criminal

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False

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There’s a difference between a DA not having enough evidence to charge someone, and “saying he didn’t do anything criminal.”

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Some folks simply can't grasp this.

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Of course we did. The standard is innocent UNTIL proven guilty. 

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That's the court of law not the court of public opinion.

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That's the court of law not the court of public opinion

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The public opinion is based on shitty reporting by the likes of Goodman and Clay Travis!

Regardless of what comes out in trial…. Your mind is made up that Miller is guilty.

Carry on grasshopper

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Then you missed it. At the end of the initial altercation something was handed from the back seat of Harris' Jeep to Bradley in the front. Bradley told police it was food. Miles told police he saw a gun. Miles could be lying, but if you assume he is telling the truth, it makes the claim that he got his gun to give Davis to use in self-defense a lot more believable. Of course, they should have just got out of there at that point, but they didn't.

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That's not what the article said. The article said

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Davis stopped at the Jeep and began dancing, and according to court testimony, later told investigators he was "drunk off tequila." Bradley was standing a few feet behind him.

Johnson told police that during their initial interaction, he told Davis he was Harris' boyfriend and to "move along." Johnson said Davis responded, "Well, you don't know who I am. You don't know what I do to you." Humphrey testified she heard Johnson say, "Brother, why don't you be good," and the only thing she heard was Davis saying, "I don't want your girl." Miles returned to the Jeep, and Miles' attorney said during the hearing that "Jaden Bradley is the one that says Darius Miles tried to calm the situation down, got [Davis] to go." Humphrey testified she didn't hear Miles say anything to anyone in the Jeep.

Police testified that during the interaction, either Harris or Humphrey passed something to Johnson in the back seat. Johnson told police it was food. Miles told police he saw a gun.

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So Miles "saw a gun" 10 minutes prior, before Davis ever had a gun, and made no statement that the boyfriend brandished a gun, only that he saw a gun passed from one occupant to another in a car. He then texts Miller, asks for his gun, Miller comes, Miles gets his gun and gives it to Davis, communication regarding whether it was loaded occurred. Then, Davis walks to the Jeep, and shots are fired immediately once Davis reaches the driver's side window. Video surveillance shows that two shots were fired by Davis prior to the boyfriend returning fire. That is a ridiculous self-defense claim Davis is trying to make, and it will be an extremely hard sell to a jury.

Well we know the guy in the Jeep had a gun. Miles claims he saw it!

I guess Davis defense will be “what was I supposed to do, wait for him to shoot first”.

Davis is screwed in this deal, he’s going to prison and he should. The driver of the Jeep may be guilty as well and he may face some legal consequences before this is over.

I’m betting Miles charges are reduced eventually..

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If the ref doesn't throw the flag in football, it's not a penalty.

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It is if Bama was supposedly the one that committed it and the announcers hint at it. At least on this site,

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Let me help everyone out then.

If the ref doesn't throw the flag in football, it's not a penalty.

In law, if the prosecutor doesn't file charges, it's not a crime.

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Based solely on what I'm reading here, Brandon Miller should not have been charged.

I'm not sure that Darius Miles should either; more has to be known to make a determination there.

If Davis can't make a self-defense justification, he should bring a toothbrush. He sounds like arrived in Tuscaloosa with trouble. You have to be careful about the company you keep.

The whole thing is as tragic as it was completely avoidable. Just ridiculous, really.

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This is all really well said. It's just heartbreaking. A woman lost her life because some idiot men did idiot things. I look at the pictures of her sweet little boy and just feel heartbreak. As of a month or two ago, he could have done whatever he wanted with his life- who knows? Now, it's just going to be that much more difficult to pull himself out of this sadness.

I'm not so sure I agree Miles shouldn't be charged- tough call. I had sympathy for him for a good part of the story until we got to the final moments. We've all had a fricked-up or toxic friend, whose corner we stood in, at our own personal harm, for hopes things would get better for them. Hopefully not Davis-level fricked-up (seriously, frick that guy- he's even worse than I thought) but people who were lost just like him. But after reading these details, it really became clear that Miles kind of controlled the escalation of the entire lead-up to the shooting. Davis is the dumb frick with nothing to lose who started/ended it, and Miles was the slightly more competent individual, probably had a little bit better of a home life, who had something to lose and should have known better...but instead pushed all this shite to the ledge. It's just incredibly sad for all involved, and what has become to our society that this shite can happen so easily. Like you said, just completely avoidable and ridiculous.

All that said, at the absolute bottom of my give-a-frick-o-meter are all the deranged virtue-signaling (primarily LSU and Auburn but a surprisingly large swath in all honesty) 'fans' who have absolutely no interest in the facts, and instead have been actively cheering this to get worse for Miller, while somehow trying to maintain a transparent facade of morals or actually giving a shite about the victims. That's real sickness.