JP Miller Filed Six Motions to Delay — The Feds Agreed Every Time

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Fun fact, the FBI doesn't typically bring cyber stalking cases, not really. Between 2010 and 2020, across the entire country, the federal government filed just 412 of them. That's roughly 40 a year. Doesn't mean there's a lot of cyber stalking that's not out there. It just means the FBI typically does not get involved in it, unless it's really egregious. When they do step in, it's because prosecutors have already built a bulletproof case from the ground up. Electronic records, GPS data, purchase histories, receipts, messages. JP, they're coming for you. Evidence that doesn't fade, doesn't forget and doesn't change its story. That's why the overall federal conviction rate sits above 90 percent.

Federal prosecutors only file cases that they expect to win. So when the federal grand jury in South Carolina returned a two-count indictment against Myrtle Beach pastor John Paul Miller back in December of 25, the FBI made it clear it wasn't routine. The special agent in charge under the JP's alleged conduct was calculated, measured, and inflicted profound trauma on those closest to him. That was nine months ago from this recording. Since then, JP Miller has filed six separate motions to delay his trial, and federal prosecutors agreed to every single one. He's waived his right to a speedy trial, and now the case has been pushed all the way to January 27 So here's the question. Why?

Why does a man charge with cyber stock and keep asking for more time? And why does a federal government with a 90% plus conviction rate keep giving it to him?

Mica Frances Miller lived in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she served as a worship leader for her local congregation. She was married to John Paul JP Miller, a man roughly 15 years her senior. JP was the senior pastor at Solid Rock Church, an institution where he held absolute sole authority with no oversight body above him. Between 2022 and 2024, Mica called the police seven times, reporting severe harassment and telling dispatchers she feared for her life. Officers responded to those calls, but every single time they took down the information and walked away without making an arrest. The police didn't intervene because the specific type of abuse Mica described wasn't recognized by state law. Under local law, it was entirely invisible. She was describing a pattern of behavior known as coercive control. This involves systematically harming a person's mental state through intense monitoring, isolation, and persistent degradation. The gap in South Carolina's domestic violence statutes at the time explicitly recognized and penalized physical violence, but the tactics of coercive control, the psychological and digital abuse fell completely outside that protection.

On April 27, 2024, Mica was found dead at Lumber River State Park in North Carolina. The medical examiner ruled her death a suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wound. In the immediate aftermath, JP faced no legal consequences.

Approximately 13 months later, he married Susie Skinner, a woman who had attended his church. State law provided no mechanism to hold anyone accountable for the months leading to Mica's death, but a much larger jurisdiction was quietly compiling evidence to build its own case. The FBI intervened where local authorities lacked jurisdiction. Federal prosecutors invoked the Title 18 of the United States Code, Section 2261A. The Federal Cyber-Stalking Statute. Federal prosecutors filed only about 40 cyber-stalking cases total each year, restricting themselves to cases with heavily documented evidence. This high selectivity yields a federal conviction rate exceeding 90%. Prosecutors allege that JP Miller's relentless digital tracking of Mica generated exactly the kind of concrete evidence the federal government requires to step in when state laws cannot. On December 17, 2025, the federal grand jury issued an indictment outlining a severe campaign of harassment that ran from November 2022 straight through the day Mica died. Court documents detailed the flood of unwanted texts and calls. He allegedly posted a private photograph and hired a private investigator to constantly track all of her movements. The allegations also include physical interference.

During an involuntary hospital stay in February 24, JP allegedly took her purse keys. And at another point, he allegedly tampered with her vehicle's tires. The indictment also details a specific interaction, March 11, 24, when a Horry County police officer explicitly ordered JP to stop contacting Mica. When federal investigators interviewed JP much later, he allegedly told them the police never gave him that order. That alleged statement formed the second count of the federal indictment. Combined with the cyber-stalking charge he faces, a maximum penalty of seven years in federal prison. JP Miller appeared at his arraignment in Florence Federal Court in January 26 He pleaded not guilty to both counts and was released on a $100,000 unsecured bond. Since then, the defense team has voluntarily waived his right to a speedy trial, citing a massive volume of discovery documents they need time to still review. The defense has filed six separate motions for continuances, all contested by prosecutors and granted by the judge, pushing the trial date deep now into January 27