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Gregg Allman biopic director and exec producer plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 10 March 2015
Gregg Allman biopic director Randall Miller and Executive Producer Jay Sedrin have pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and trespassing as part of a plea deal.
As previously reported, Randall, Sedrin and producer Jody Savin, who is also Miller’s wife, were on trial over the death of camera assistant Sarah Jones during the film of ‘Midnight Rider’, based on Allman’s autobiography, last year. The crew had been setting up to film on a railway bridge when a train unexpectedly appeared, hitting a bed that had been placed on the tracks, injuring six and killing Jones.
In the unusual case of filmmakers being brought to trial over on-set deaths, all three were facing up to eleven years in prison and had denied all charges against them.
However, yesterday afternoon AP broke the news that Miller and Sedrin had now accepted plea deals. Miller’s deal meant that all charges against Savin were dropped, but he will serve two years in prison and pay a $20,000 fine, followed by eight years of probation. Sedrin avoided jail time, but will be placed on probation for ten years.