Ezra Miller pleads not guilty to burglary charges in Vermont case
Ezra Miller pleads not guilty to burglary charges in Vermont case
An aspiring filmmaker and aspiring lawyer, Ezra Miller of East Haddam, Vt., made headlines last month when he pleaded guilty to two charges of burglary and one of theft in Vermont’s first case of what’s called a “first-degree break-in” case.
The case dates back to Dec. 18, 2011, when Miller — the grandson of famed Harvard Professor Alan M. Miller — was arrested for allegedly stealing a laptop computer from a Kmart in East Haddam. He was charged in New Haven, Conn., in a March charge, but in Vermont there’s no extradition agreement for such a case.
A month after that arrest, he was indicted on a charge of first-degree burglary in Vermont, as well as an attempted theft in New Haven. The second-degree charge was related to a third-floor apartment from which Miller allegedly took the laptop computer.
“I don’t see, having been here and having researched cases — I didn’t realize Vermont would be one of the few states,” said Ethan Pyle, a Vermont Innocence Project spokesman.
The Vermont charge involved Miller’s alleged burglary through a bedroom window of his mother’s East Haddam residence back in 2011. The New Haven charge was for an alleged theft of a laptop computer from a Walmart, he said.
According to court papers, Miller’s mother, Ann Miller, had given permission for Miller to take the laptop computer from the Walmart. He also allegedly took two watches from within the bedroom where his mother is alleged to have stored her jewelry, court papers say.
“I’m not saying that anyone is a thief or a burglar and that would be a sin,” Pyle said. “But the thing is, that is not what the charging papers say the crime was. It was burglary and attempted
