Roman gets prison for child porn
Officials say Clinton Briggs Miller extorted sexually explicit photos from underage girls.
Clinton Briggs Miller’s scheduled arraignment on child pornography charges in Floyd County Superior Court was postponed Friday, because of a federal conviction on the same charges.
Miller pleaded guilty to child pornography production last month in federal court and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Floyd County District Attorney Leigh Patterson said the local case was dead-docketed since the federal charges are the same as the state charges.
“Dead-docketing” is a procedural move that postpones the prosecution indefinitely. However, the prosecution can be reinstated at any time.
According to Floyd County Jail records:
Miller, 27, of 10 Lovell St., Apt. 2, was arrested in Rome last September after nude images of underage girls were found on his cellphone.
Police reported some of the girls were performing sexual acts with adults and minors.
He was 26 at the time of his arrest and previous reports and interviews show that he was exchanging text messages with two minor girls in July 2015.
One of the girls was from Georgia and the other girl lived in California.
He persuaded the girls to send him explicit photographs of themselves
and then threatened to post those photographs on social media websites unless they continued to send him more, increasingly explicit, photographs.
Following his release from prison, Miller will be on probation for life, according to federal court documents.
Patterson said Miller turned himself in at a federal prison in Mississippi on Wednesday.