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Midnight Rider director Randall Miller told a Georgia court Wednesday that he never knowingly violated the conditions of his probation for the 2014 death of Sarah Jones, and that was just enough to convince a judge not to send him back to jail. "I was allowed to continue to work in the film business as long as I…

Update, Aug. 14: Randall Miller’s hearing before Judge Anthony L. Harrison has been delayed again, now set for Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 9AM ET, “upon agreement of counsel, and for good cause shown” according to an amended rule nisi which you can read here. Deadline will update you if we hear back from Miller’s attorney…

EXCLUSIVE: UPDATE, 12:45 PM: Looks like both Randall Miller and the family of Sarah Jones will have to wait a while longer to discover if the Midnight Rider director could be going back to jail or not. A hearing (exclusively revealed by Deadline last week) on the possible probation violation by the once again working…

EXCLUSIVE: One week after Georgia prosecutors sought a new arrest warrant for Midnight Rider director Randall Miller over probation violations stemming from the 2014 on-set death of Sarah Jones, the filmmaker's lawyers are fighting back to stop potential return to jail for their client. “The defense urges the court to…

EXCLUSIVE: Six years after Sarah Jones was killed on the Georgia set of Midnight Rider, director Randall Miller is facing being arrested again. Law enforcement authorities in the Peach State today requested that Department of Community Supervision issue a warrant for Miller for violating the conditions of his…

EXCLUSIVE: Due to ambiguity in probation documents, disgraced Midnight Rider director Randall Miller is back behind the camera and making movies – despite an involuntarily manslaughter guilty plea that many believed forbid such work for up to decade. Deadline has learned that Miller directed the comedy Higher Grounds…

EXCLUSIVE: Joyce Gilliard, the hair stylist who was seriously injured in the train accident that killed camera assistant Sarah Jones on the first day of shooting Midnight Rider in 2014, has written and produced a short film about safety on the set. The 40-minute film, Daddy's Home, will launch on YouTube and other…

UPDATED with AMC & family lawyer statement: After two days of deliberations, the Georgia jury in the trial of the wrongful death of The Walking Dead stuntman John Bernecker returned with a verdict this afternoon. AMC Networks were found “not to be negligent” in the death of the stuntman, said the juror foreperson in…

"Unfortunately, the evidence will show that John Bernecker made a mistake," AMC attorney David A. Dial said Tuesday in opening arguments for the wrongful death trial of The Walking Dead stuntman, who died more than two years ago after falling more than 20 feet on the Georgia set of the zombie apocalypse series. “For…

Like Midnight Rider's director before her, the film’s first assistant director Hillary Schwartz asked for and was denied leniency by a Georgia court for her part in the death of her 27 year-old crew member Sarah Jones. Schwartz had motioned the court for a shortened sentence last year asking that her probation end…

A confidential settlement has been reached in the wrongful death civil case against CSX Transportation brought by the family of young camera assistant Sarah Jones, who was killed on the train trestle set of Midnight Rider in 2014. The settlement was revealed today by the lawyers for the Jones family. The lawyers said…

Midnight Rider's first assistant director Hillary Schwartz, who in March 2015 was sentenced to 10 years probation for criminal trespass and felony involuntary manslaughter for her role in the death of 27 year-old camera assistant Sarah Jones, this morning asked a Georgia Judge to end her probation now. The Judge has…