“Midnight Rider” director Randall Miller completed his probation this week, 11 years after Camera Warman was killed on a train on a movie set.
Miller was granted this week a court order that completely wiped out his unwilling manslaughter conviction from his records, he said. Documents obtained by TheWrap.
The allegations came under Georgia's First Offenders Act, which is available to first-time offenders completing probation without violations.
“I am very grateful that this day has finally come. With this exoneration, my record has been cleared,” Miller said in a statement.
Miller completed 10 years of probation, during which he was banned from making films.
He was initially sentenced to 10 years, but was released after spending just a year behind bars.
He pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass charges, resulting in camera assistant Sarah Jones being just 27 years old on the first day he filmed the film “Midnight Rider” about singer Greg Allman.
Jace Drisch, the film's executive producer, also pleaded guilty and took 10 years of probation.
The pair were deemed responsible for the horrifying incident of the February 20, 2014 incident after intentionally filming on a railway bridge in southeastern Georgia without permission to transport the owner CSX.
The crew were about to film actor William Hart in the role of Allman, assuming that the train would not pass that day.
The train travelling at 55am, crashed into a metal bed on the track, scrambling for safety, clinging to the metal railing of a bridge above the Altamaha River, flying rap shotguns.
Jones was attacked by the edge of the fuel tank and sent her down the train path she was running on. She died soon.
Miller's prosecutors were the most famous lawsuit against the filmmakers until Alec Baldwin, who played and served as a producer, accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Harina Hutchins on the set of “Rust” in 2021.
The charges against Baldwin were eventually removed. Hannah Gutierrez Reid, the film's armed man, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Hutchins' death affected a California project that granted filmmakers a $1.5 million tax incentive to hire safe supervisors on set.
Miller is set to benefit from the pilot program for this independent feature film, SuperCrip.
