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State Rep. Borris Miles indicted

02:47 AM CDT on Tuesday, April 15, 2008

By Kevin Reece / 11 News

Video: Kevin Reece's 11 News report

HOUSTON—First, he lost his job.  Now state Rep. Borris Miles could lose his freedom.

A Harris County grand jury on Monday indicted the lawmaker on deadly conduct charges.

Boris Miles

The two misdemeanor deadly conduct indictments both stem from the same day in December of 2007.

Miles allegedly pulled a gun on the wife of TSU regent Willard Jackson at the Toyota Center during a Rockets game.

Later that night, at an invite-only Christmas party thrown by Houston businessman David Harris at the St. Regis Hotel, an apparently intoxicated Miles reportedly pulled a gun again.

Harris claims Miles threatened him, and witnesses said the lawmaker forcibly kissed another man’s wife.

“Well actually I think it’s a sad day today. It’s really a sad two days. The first sad day was the day Mr. Miles pulled a gun at a holiday function. The second sad day is today, because of those actions he has to face those consequences associated with it,” Harris said.

Harris extended his thanks to the grand jury for hearing the evidence and said the whole thing is in the court’s hands now.

The ordeal became a huge distraction in Miles’ failed re-election campaign earlier this year.

He lost to the man he’d defeated two years before: Al Edwards.

Miles is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning.

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