CONLEY TAPS NEW DISTRICT COURT CHIEF Sept. 11, 2007 Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley today announced the appointment of Assistant District Attorney Christina E. Miller as his new Chief of District Courts and Community Prosecutions. A lawyer since 1998 and a six-year veteran of the Suffolk DA’s Office, Miller is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s House of Delegates and serves on its Budget and Finance Committee and its Diversity Committee. She was recently named an Up and Coming Lawyer by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, and she is a co-chair of both the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association and the Boston Bar Association’s Criminal Law Section. “From my first day in office, Assistant District Attorney Miller has demonstrated solid, understated leadership within her unit,” Conley said. “She is an outstanding prosecutor who brings a wealth of experience to her new position, and I am excited to welcome her to our executive staff.” A former Superior Court law clerk, Miller began her career as a prosecutor in the Essex County District Attorney’s Office and later moved to Norfolk County, where she prosecuted a wide variety of offenses in Quincy District Court. As Suffolk County’s district court chief, Miller will supervise the prosecutorial staff in Chelsea District Court and eight municipal courts throughout Boston. Miller’s duties as chief of community prosecutions will also make her the point person for prosecuting hate crimes and civil rights violations within Suffolk County. “My goal is to ensure that the work done in our district courts makes a positive impact on our communities and their residents,” Miller said. “It’s an honor to serve the people of Boston, Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop by seeking justice on their behalf.” As an appellate attorney, Miller wrote briefs in support of countless Suffolk prosecutions, including Commonwealth v. Charon Ray, in which the defendant – a homicide suspect who had previously threatened one witness – sought access to grand jury transcripts that would have identified other individuals prepared to testify against him. Thanks in part to Miller’s work, the judge’s decision to allow access to the transcripts only to the defendant’s lawyer but not to Ray himself withstood two appeals to higher courts. Ray was subsequently convicted of first-degree murder and other offenses. Similarly, Miller also sought protection from unwarranted disclosure of a rape victim’s treatment records in Commonwealth v. Alberto Vega. There, a judge found that persons who had undergone treatment from an allied mental health treatment provider were not protected by privilege. After the Commonwealth’s appeal, filed and argued by Miller, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court agreed, finding that the treatment records were privileged and not open to scrutiny by the defendant. Miller will officially take her post on Sept. 17, Conley said. Assistant District Attorney Christina E. Miller Return to the Press Releases page.