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An appeals court in Georgia has denied filmmaker Randall Miller's request to end his probation early in his involuntary manslaughter case stemming from an on-set accident.Miller, 60, will now have to serve a further two years of probation, Variety reported Saturday.The filmmaker pled guilty in March 2015 after being charged following the death of camera assistant Sarah Jones who was struck by a freight train while filming scenes on a railroad bridge for the Greg Allman biopic Midnight Rider.He was sentenced to a year in jail followed by 10 years of probation. An appeals court in Georgia has denied director Randall Miller's request to end his probation early in his involuntary manslaughter case stemming from an on-set accident.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer 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.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA judge on Wednesday ruled that Randall Miller did not violate his probation when he shot a film in 2019, but warned the director not to make any more films for the remainder of his sentence.Judge Anthony Harrison sentenced Miller in 2015 to a year in jail in connection with the February 2014 death of camera assistant Sarah Jones on the set of the film “Midnight Rider” near Jesup, Ga. He also sentenced Miller to 10 years of probation, during which Miller was barred from acting as a “director, first assistant director or supervisor with responsibility for safety in any film production.”Miller directed a new film, “Higher Grounds,” which was shot in Serbia, London and Colombia in the summer of 2019.