Litigation continued in the court of Christian County Judge John Atkins Thursday morning, in what was a 12-minute hearing involving the possible revocation of Samual Miller’s shock probation.
Released in 2017 after being convicted in the high-profile trial of a 2014 teen sexual assault in Hopkinsville, Miller reportedly violated the terms of his probation within the last 24 months — after serving more than 15% of his original 13-year sentence.
Atkins said a ruling still hasn’t come from the Court of Appeals — one that would deny Atkins the right to complete the revocation. Miller’s defender, Michael Thompson, filed a motion through a writ of prohibition seeking a different judge.
Atkins did make one ruling Thursday, however. He denied a bond motion, and set the next pre-trial conference for 10 AM, November 9, in hopes that the Court of Appeals will have published its answer by that time.
Miller is one of three men, alongside Tyler Perry and Colton Cavanaugh, who struck plea deals in exchange for testimony against Dayton Ross Jones.
The quartet garnered a litany of charges surrounding the sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy at a house party — before distributing their videoed exploits via text messaging and Snapchat, a social media application.
