Mica's Law and the Stalled Fight to Criminalize Coercive Control
Between 2022 and 2024, Mica Miller called the police on her husband seven times. Each time, her sister would later tell South Carolina lawmakers, the officers left without acting. “There was nothing for them to do,” Abigail Francis testified, “since there were no laws to guide them against coercive control.”
Mica Miller died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a North Carolina state park on April 27, 2024, two days after serving her husband with divorce papers. She had married John-Paul “JP”...
Mica Miller died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a North Carolina state park on April 27, 2024, two days after serving her husband with divorce papers. She had married John-Paul “JP”...
