re: What did Brandon Miller do wrong?

Yeah and that guy your wife is always hanging out with is just her friend

Bama should have suspended him. However, they desperately want to win games so they are willing to destroy his brand in the process…

article from the Montgomery Advertiser..Pamela Woods, Nathaniel's sister, said her brother was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He was arguing with the officers about an alleged warrant for his arrest when Spencer appeared and fired a gun, she said.
Poor guy was in the wrong place at the wrong time just like good kid Brandon. Too bad for him he can't help Alabama win a game though.

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Nathaniel Woods never pulled the trigger, but the accomplice law sent him to death row

By all accounts Nathaniel Woods held no guns and fired no shots the night three Birmingham police officers were killed in 2004, but he was there and thus complicit, according to the state.

His presence at that Ensley apartment is what is sending him to the execution chamber Thursday night, unless a higher authority intervenes. The state's accomplice law is what allowed for Woods to be charged in the first place.

Woods was convicted of capital murder in the shooting deaths of officers Carlos Owen, Harley Chisholm and Charles Bennett in June 2004.

What is the Alabama accomplice law?

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2005, file photo, Nathaniel Woods watches as the jury enters the courtroom during his murder trial in Birmingham, Ala.
Under Alabama law, code 13A-2-23, a person is legally accountable for the behavior of another person if he or she "procures, induces or causes such other person to commit the offense."

A person can also be charged under the law if he or she aids or abets another person in committing a crime or fails to prevent a crime while having the ability to do so.

Most states have some form of the accomplice law. The law can be used for any crime, though it most often is heard of in instances of fatal shootings.

What the Supreme Court says about the law

The Supreme Court has weighed in on these laws, setting two standards by which states tend to subscribe to in the case of fatal shootings.

Some states require proof of an accomplice's intent to kill, also known at the Enmund Standard, set in 1982 when the Supreme Court ruled Earl Enmund, a getaway driver in a fatal robbery, could not be sentenced to death because he "did not kill, attempt to kill, or intend that a killing take place."

Eight states, including Alabama, only require an element of "reckless disregard for human life," known as the Tison standard. In 1987, the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for two brothers whose father escaped from prison then killed a family whose car they took. The brothers were present at the time of the slaying. Both the father and a third brother were killed in the manhunt for them.

The court acknowledged that neither brother intended for the family to be killed but they played a “major” role in the prison break and carjacking. If the defendant displayed “reckless disregard for human life” in the course of a felony, the court said, then the death penalty was proportionate even when there was not a clear intent to kill.

In fatal shootings, 27 states allow people who were "non-triggermen" to be executed, according to the ACLU.

There is also a federal statute that allows accomplices to be charged in federal crimes.

The accomplice law in use

In Woods' case, prosecutors successfully argued he "conspired" with the shooter, Kerry Spencer, in killing the officers and was therefore equally culpable in their deaths. Spencer last month told the news outlet The Appeal that Woods was not involved and there "was no plan to kill the police."

More:'Give us time': Family of Nathaniel Woods set for execution makes plea to Gov. Ivey

Prosecutors have not presented any evidence to show that Woods held or fired a gun during the incident.

Pamela Woods, Nathaniel's sister, said her brother was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He was arguing with the officers about an alleged warrant for his arrest when Spencer appeared and fired a gun, she said.

According to court documents, Spencer admitted that he opened fire in a "knee-jerk reaction" when he saw one of the officers holding a gun. Spencer was also convicted and sentenced to death in the killings. His execution date has not yet been set.

Woods' lawyers allege he received negligent legal advice at the time of his trial, when he rejected a plea deal after his trial counsel failed to explain the accomplice law.

More:Lakeith Smith, who got 65 years in accomplice law killing case, has sentence reduced

In 2015, the accomplice law was used to charge four teens when another was shot and killed by police during a foot pursuit following a burglary in Millbrook and an exchange of gunfire.

Three Faulkner University football players in 2016 were indicted on murder charges after a fourth player was killed during a home invasion they all participated in.

Last June, three Montgomery men were charged with murder after two went to a home for a drug transaction that turned deadly. During the transaction two men tried to rob the other two and got into an exchange of gunfire, killing one. The three remaining men were charged.

Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Kirsten Fiscus at 334-318-1798 or KFiscus@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @KDFiscus

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Miles also had been texting Brandon for over an hour to come pick him up. Why didn’t you include that?

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Because he's a fricktard, that's why.

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What IS sickening is a black subculture that turns the normal annoyances of life into funerals and incarceration. That’s what is really sick.

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But God forbid that any should question this woman's choice of friends and why she chose to be out partying with them instead of being home with her child.

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So you think the strip is on campus?


He never drove his car onto campus huh?

That's pretty weird. Guess he always parked off campus and walked.

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Are you really this fricking stupid? Do you actually think Miles kept his gun stored in Miller's car 24/7?

Dumbasses like you really should try to find a couple of brain cells to rub together before you post.

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Dumbasses like you really should try to find a couple of brain cells to rub together before you post.

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There's only so many to go around in Lee County.

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So Miles was “self defending” the entire time from when he realized he needed the “self defense weapon” to the time Miller drove it all the way to him to the time after it was delivered and he decided to “self defendingly” fire the weapon into a car while the occupants were sitting in the car killing an unarmed woman?

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You stupid piece of shite. Miles didn't fire the gun.

Seriously...some of you people are so retarded that it makes one wonder how you can even dress yourselves in the morning.

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Everyone hates Alabama and their fans.

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And everyone loves Auburn and their fans, right?

You truly are an idiot.

Let’s be honest here… If he didn’t play basketball for the University of Alabama… He would’ve been charged with accessory… You know exactly what he did. Stop being a homer for five seconds.