Apollo Holmes gets bail in Darius Miller beatdown case

Published: January 5, 2008, 6:25 pm

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Hat Tip: Beth Warren, Atlanta Journal Constitution The mother of a celebrity fitness trainer critically injured when he was beaten in a Midtown parking lot made an emotional plea to a judge Friday to think of her comatose son before granting bail to a suspect. Patricia Bonhomme told Fulton County Magistrate Richard Hicks that her only son, Darius Miller, 41, nearly died when his heart stopped, but doctors were able to bring him back. Doctors at Emory Crawford Long Hospital have told the family Miller may never come out of his vegetative state, Bonhomme said. “I sit there watching my son suffer,” the mother said. “This violence has to stop. My son is lying there fighting for his life with tubes down him.” Hicks told the victims’ mother, “I feel for you,” but under Georgia law, he had to grant bail to Apollo Holmes, who has no criminal record. He set it at $100,000. Holmes, 24, is charged with aggravated assault in the attack on

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