Eric Miller Sentenced to Six Years For John Chamberlain Murder
Categories: Chamberlain Murder Trial
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| John Chamberlain's Booking Photo |
Unlike six other co-defendants who received prison sentences of at least 15 years to life in prison for second-degree murder, Miller was only charged with voluntary manslaughter.
Inmates took turns punching, kicking and stomping on Chamberlain, and at some point, his attackers anally penetrated him with a plastic spoon and a tube of toothpaste. Sources familiar with the case including inmates at the jail when the crime occurred described Miller, a diminutive figure behind bars for drunk driving, as having been heavily medicated when the attack took place. He reportedly broke his arm during the attack.
In interviews with detectives in the hours after the attack, the defendants first claimed not to have been involved and later tried to assert that there was never any plan to murder Chamberlain, and that such beatings were routine events that took place with full knowledge of guards. Only prisoners were charged in the crime, but a jail guard, Kevin Taylor, implicated in the rumor that led to Chamberlain's death, lost his job, as did several high-level officials involved in oversight at Theo Lacy.
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