Miller Jr. case continued again

The ongoing case of Kenneth Miller Jr. will keep going for at least the next month and a half.
During a case management conference at the Randolph County Courthouse on Friday, Miller's private attorney, Thomas Mansfield, said his client had been approved for residential substance abuse treatment and was to begin that treatment either Sunday or Monday at The Fellowship House in Anna.
Mansfield said Miller would be in treatment at least 30 days and requested Associate Circuit Court Judge Gene Gross to approve a continuance in the case. Gross, who was filling in for the vacationing Circuit Court Judge Richard A. Brown, approved the request.
"I announced we were ready for trial last time and Judge Brown did not refuse my request to put it on the jury docket, so I don't have much to gripe about," said State's Attorney Jeremy Walker.
Miller has two different defense counsels in separate cases that are being tracked together through the pretrial process. Both cases stem from incidents that occurred earlier this year.
Mansfield is representing Miller in the January case involving the alleged burglary of the Scuttle Inn Lounge at Pyramid Oaks Golf Course and alleged arson of a house Miller co-owned on Green Street on Steeleville's east side.
Public defender James Kelley is representing Miller in the case of his June 2 arrest on suspicion of burglarizing a home on North Meadow Lane on Steeleville's north side.
The 35-year-old Miller, of Percy, was out on bond on the January incidents when the Meadow Lane burglary allegedly took place, and he posted bond on July 25 on the June 2 arrest.
Miller has been charged with arson, aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer (exceeding 21 mph over the posted limit) and burglary in the January case and a single charge of residential burglary in the June case.
Miller's defense team has attempted to get their client eligible for Chapter 20 probation, which provides for the election of treatment for an alcoholic or addict, but was denied as arson is considered a violent crime. The parties are due back in court for another case management conference on Nov. 16 at 10 a.m.