“Midnight Rider” director Randall Miller’s involuntary manslaughter conviction in the 2014 death of crew member Sarah Jones has been cleared after completing 10 years probation, according to documents obtained by TheWrap.
Taking advantage of the Georgia First Offender Act, Miller was granted a court order this week that completely wipes the conviction from his record. The Georgia law is only available to certain first-time offenders.
“I am so grateful that this day has finally come. With this exoneration my record has been cleared,” he said in a statement. “With this exoneration my record has been cleared.”
Second assistant camerawoman Sarah Jones was killed while filming a scene for “Midnight Rider” on railroad tracks in Georgia in on Feb. 20, 2014. The 27-year-old was unable to escape an oncoming freight train that injured eight others
The filmmakers of the Greg Allman biopic were later charged with putting Jones and the entire crew in danger by filming on a busy railway without the proper permits.
Miller was initially sentenced to 10 years but ultimately released after one year. During his subsequent 10 years of probation, he was barred from filmmaking.
Last year, Miller was granted $1.5 million in California tax incentives to shoot the independent feature film “Supercrip,” about a quadriplegic Uber driver who meets an egotistical movie star
The project will have a safety supervisor on set, thanks to a pilot program set up by the California Legislature in reaction to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust” in 2021.
After Jones’ death, her family started the non-profit, Safety for Sarah, which advocates for safer working conditions on film sets.
