Biography
J. A. Miller was from Denver, Colorado. The 1921 Senate hearing records his sentencing on May 31, 1918 to two years under Section 3, Title I of the Espionage Act. His sentence was commuted to one year on March 3, 1919, and he was released March 21, 1919. His exact arrest and admission dates remain unverified.
1920s custody review: The 1921 Senate hearing lists J. A. Miller under Colorado, sentenced May 31, 1918 to two years under Section 3, Title I. The sentence was commuted March 3, 1919 to one year; the table explicitly records release on March 21, 1919. The former September 2, 1920 release was unsupported sentence arithmetic and is corrected. September 2, 1918 is not supported as his admission: the adjacent preceding table lists that sentencing date for a different Miller, J. R., in western Arkansas. The conflicting inherited admission is cleared rather than reassigned from another prisoner. His arrest and exact admission remain unresolved. Existing photograph retained.
Source: 1921 Senate hearing, page 89, original table visually inspected. This correction places the known release before the 1920s; the record remains in the audit baseline for accountability.
