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Why Alabama's Brandon Miller has not been charged with a crime

There was one glaring question raised by Tuesday’s courtroom testimony detailing Brandon Miller’s involvement in the shooting death of a woman last month in Tuscaloosa: Why hasn’t the Alabama basketball star been charged with a crime?

Did Miller merely demonstrate poor judgment the night of the fatal shooting, when he allegedly brought teammate Darius Miles his handgun after Miles texted asking Miller to do so? Or does allegedly delivering the gun used to kill 23-year-old Jamea Jonae Harris potentially make Miller an accessory to murder?

Asked Tuesday by AL.com why Miller hasn’t been charged with a crime, Tuscaloosa chief assistant district attorney Paula Whitley said, “There’s nothing we could charge him with.