Mickey Stines Mental State Key to defend the shooting judge Kevin Mullins

The former sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines in Letcher County is accused of shot in his courthouse ex-judge Kevin Mullins on September 19, 2024.
Stines have been custody since the shootout and has not guilty. The police did not speculate about his potential motif.
Stines' lawyer said that the mental state of his client would be an essential part of his legal defense.

“Extreme emotional disorder” will be an essential part of the right -back for the former sheriff Kentucky

The lawyer Jeremy Bartley, who represents the former Letcher -Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” STINES, filed a termination at the court that “expert evidence of a mental illness or a deficiency or a mental illness that deals with guilt and punishment” if the case is finally brought to trial.

Stines are accused of having killed district judge Kevin Mullins at a shootout on September 19.

Bartley said on Monday morning and said that he thinks there is “more evidence that would support the statement that he is not responsible for the shootout”. He refused to offer further information in the course of the case.

During a hearing on January 17th – Stine's recent court appearance – the public prosecutor Jackie Steele said that he expected tests and other parts of the discovery process to take four to six months.

A prior notice of the state is necessary if a lawyer demonstrated in a process of using evidence of defense for mental health, said Bartley.

“Usually we have to do it much later,” he said. “We have no negotiation date yet, but in order to accelerate the inevitable assessment that the Commonwealth wants to take place in (the psychiatric center of Kentucky Correctional), we passed this termination.”

Stines has been in custody since the shootings, which took place in Mullins' private chambers in the Letcher Courthouse in downtown Whitesburg. He has not guilty to murder an official, with the case being pending in front of the Letcher Circuit Court.

Mullins had been a district judge in the county since 2009, while Stines worked as a bailiff for several years before he was elected sheriff in 2018.

Inhabitants and city officials in Whitesburg said with around 2,000 inhabitants that the two were friends.

A motif for the shootout is still unclear. But during a trial last autumn, when a film material was shown by Mullins, a detective from Kentucky State Police said that Stines tried to call his daughter shortly before the shootout, and then tried to call her by phone.

Last week Court TV released a video by Inside Mulllin's office, which was previously recorded on the day of the shootout, in which the two men and three other without visual signs of disagreements spoke, and the police ate lunch this afternoon.

Bartley said he hadn't seen the segment, but the description of the film material was not a surprise.

“It supports what we said all the time that this … was not a business that was planned,” he said.

A date for the next court hearing of the case has not yet been determined.

Reach Lucas Aulbach at laulbach@courier-journal.com.

Mickey Stines Mental State Key to defend the shooting judge Kevin Mullins

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