A former sergeant in the US Army National Guard who was convicted of a war crime for fatally shooting an Afghan civilian in the head now works on military policy in Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) offic…
Derrick Miller, who served eight years in a military prison for premeditated murder of a civilian, began working as a legislative aide for Gaetz in Sept. 2022., who argued during a three-day court-martial that he took another soldier’s weapon, straddled Atta Mohammed on the ground and then shot him.Miller shot Mohammed in self-defense
However, a witness in the case, a fellow Guardsman, testified that he heard Miller threatening to kill Mohammed, who was on his back, if he did not tell the truth. And a military prosecutor In 2011, Miller was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of premeditated murder of a civilian. After serving eight years at the US Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, MIller was paroled in February 2019. A spokesman for Gaetz told The Post on Tuesday that Miller was “wrongfully convicted.”
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