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| Inmate gets more time for tossing urine |
| By The Mercury |
| Published: 01/31/2005 |
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A Pennsylvania prison inmate received additional jail time last week for allegedly throwing urine and hot coffee at correctional officers. Darren Lamont Miller, 27, formerly of Allegheny County, was sentenced to seven to 15 years in state prison for the offense during a hearing before Montgomery County Judge William T. Nicholas. "He has no respect for authority. Prison has had no rehabilitative effect on this defendant. So he needs to be incarcerated until he learns that respect," Assistant District Attorney Todd Stephens, who argued for a lengthy prison term, said last Tuesday. During a trial in November, a jury convicted Miller of two counts of aggravated harassment by a prisoner and one count of aggravated assault in connection with incidents that occurred at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford between November and December 2002. According to Stephens, Miller was serving a sentence for carjacking at the time he committed the offenses. He said Miller has had 84 misconducts while in the state prison. According to a criminal complaint filed by state police at Skippack, on Nov. 22, 2002, Miller threw a milk carton containing a liquid at a correctional officer during an argument that ensued when Miller allegedly refused to obey a officer's orders. Authorities said the liquid smelled like a mixture of urine and sour milk. On Dec. 13, 2002, an officer delivered breakfast to Miller's cell and Miller threw a cup of coffee in the face of the officer, according to a criminal complaint. The officer was treated at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center for minor burns and a scratched cornea, according to the criminal complaint. Two days later, Miller, who was then in a restricted housing unit of the prison, threw a liquid at several officers after he dismantled a splash screen that had been placed on the bars of his cell, according to court documents. Officers had to use a pepper-like spray in order to restrain Miller and to get him to comply with their orders to remove his arms and hands from an opening in his cell, according to court documents. |
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