Miller Dismissal Plea Rejected

A federal judge rejected a plea today by Richard W. Miller’s lawyers to throw out espionage charges against the former FBI agent on the ground that the government had failed to prove its case.

U.S. District Judge David Kenyon acted after defense attorney Joel Levine argued that in six weeks of prosecution testimony, there had been insufficient proof of Miller’s guilt. He said that the only clear evidence presented of Miller’s activities were the defendant’s own admissions, made to various FBI agents during several days of investigation, and in themselves insufficient to convict him.