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Randall Miller will have to serve another two years of probation, after a Georgia appeals court this week denied his motion to terminate his sentence early.

The director pleaded guilty in March 2015 to involuntary manslaughter in the death of camera assistant Sarah Jones, who was killed by a freight train during the filming of “Midnight Rider.” Miller served a year in jail and was also sentenced to 10 years of probation, during which time he is forbidden from directing movies.

Miller was the first director ever sentenced to jail for an on-set accident. His case has resurfaced in the news after a Santa Fe prosecutor announced involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed in the death of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Since being released from jail in 2016, Miller has made attempts to loosen his probation restrictions.

Last year, his attorney asked a judge to end his sentence early under...

Randall Miller, the director who was sentenced to a year in jail after the fatal train crash on the set of “Midnight Rider,” has asked a Georgia appeals court to terminate his probation early.

Miller was ordered to serve 10 years of probation after pleading guilty in 2015 to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the crash that killed camera assistant Sarah Jones and injured six others.

While he is on probation, Miller is forbidden from working as a director or having any other role on set where he would be in charge of safety.

In 2020, prosecutors asked that Miller’s probation be revoked, after they learned that he had shot a new movie, “Higher Grounds.” The judge in the case, Anthony Harrison, declined to send Miller back to jail, but warned him not to make any more films for the balance of his probation.

Last fall, the state probation office submitted a...

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Csx’s petition for a new trial in the case of Midnight Rider and the death of Sarah Jones has been denied by Chatham County State Court Judge Gregory V. Sapp. Csx had filed a motion for a new trial after losing a civil case this past summer to the parents of 27-year-old crew member Sarah Jones, killed on a Ga train trestle in 2014 while filming the Greg Allman biopic Midnight Rider.

“The Court disagrees with Csx’s argument that there was no evidence Csx violated the applicable standard of care,” Judge Sapp wrote in his order. “To the extent the jury found that Csx engaged in willful or wanton conduct, there is some evidence to support this finding … and there was some evidence for the jury to find that Csx employees were negligent in failing to report the trespassers or take additional precautions to avoid injuring them.”

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Exclusive Video: In this series of video clips beginning above and continuing below, Assistant District Attorney John Johnson lays out the events that led to the death of Sarah Jones on the set of Midnight Rider last year. The first video begins with the film’s director, Randall Miller, telling Judge Anthony Harrison that he was accepting a plea deal that includes two years in county jail, and eight more years of probation. Before accepting the plea deal and handing down…...

Exclusive Video: After expressing “some reluctance” to accept the historic plea deal that will send Midnight Rider director Randall Miller to county jail for two years, Georgia Circuit Court Judge Anthony Harrison handed down the first-ever felony sentences to filmmakers for an on-set death, as shown in this exclusive video above, shot for Deadline by Patricia Leon. Harrison called the death of Sarah Jones, a camera assistant killed when a train barreled through the Midnig…...