The Region - News from Nov. 15, 1985

Attorneys for Richard W. Miller, the first FBI agent ever charged as a spy, will ask U.S. District Judge David V. Kenyon to set bail for their client, who has been in custody at Terminal Island Federal Prison for more than 13 months. On Nov. 6, a Los Angeles federal court jury deadlocked in Miller’s espionage trial and Kenyon declared a mistrial. In a memo filed this week, Miller’s attorneys served notice they will ask Kenyon to release their client on bail when they meet with the judge later this month to discuss a new trial. It is the first time bail has been requested for Miller, 48, whom his lawyers said in their memo “has been held virtually incommunicado . . . and suffered the trauma of an emotion-paced trial extending over three months.”