A former Sheriff of Kentucky claims that he is not culpable to shoot his right -old friend in his rooms because he was in a moment of insanity and extreme emotional stress.
Shawn 'Mickey' Stines, 43, is accused of the murder of district judge Kevin Mullins, 54, in his office in September. The recordings were caught on video, but the motive of the murder remains unclear.
Stines' intends to present expert evidence with regard to a mental illness or defect or mental situation with regard to feelings of guilt and punishment, “said his lawyer Jeremy Bartley in a court application.
The former Sheriff 'is also planning to present a defense of insanity, as well as a defense of extreme emotional disruption', as reported by Fox News.
Stine Bartley's lawyer has previously said that the case will depend on a testimony that Stines gave a statement days before the shooting in September 2024.
Bartley said that the statement forced the sheriff to answer questions about one of his delegates accused of sexually prisoners of the prison. In that case, an prosecutor claimed that she was forced by former deputy Sheriff Ben Fields to have sex in Mullin's Chambers in exchange for six months in exchange.
The lawyer said that Sheriff Stines feared that the recoil of his statement of his statement made sure that he feared that the life of his or his family was in danger.
Former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn 'Mickey' Stines, 43, will issue an insane defense in the fatal shooting of district judge Kevin Mullins in September 2024
Stines's lawyer said this week that there might be more evidence that a finding would support that he was not criminal responsible for the shooting
Since Mullins was shot in his own rooms, accusations have been made that his courtroom was used by one of the representatives of Stines in a scandal for the favorite sentence
Bartley claimed that Stijnen's 'mental health' was influenced by the observed threat that emerged from the deposition.
“In the end he was afraid of the safety of his wife and his daughter, and I think what you see is the result of that,” said the lawyer.
It comes in the midst of accusations that Judge Mullins himself may be bound to a sex-for-favorite scandal in their small town of Whitesburg.
When Stines was taken into custody for the shooting, he reportedly exclaimed: “They try to kidnap my wife and child.”
Prosecutor Sabrina Adkins claimed that, in addition to other women, she was forced to have sex with former deputy sheriff fields in exchange for favorable treatment after their arrests.
She told newsnation that Judge Mullins has a number of video tapes of some things in the rooms of the judge … Only with girls, sexual and such. “
Fields was fired by Stijnen before they were finally arrested and sentenced to six months in prison.
In a legal application, lawyer Bartley said of the defense that 'expert evidence with regard to a mental illness or defect or mental state with regard to feelings of guilt and punishment' will be presented in the case.
Bartley said he believes that there might be more evidence that a finding would support that Stines was not criminal responsible, but did not offer any details.
The lawyer of Stines, Jeremy Bartley, said this week that 'expert evidence with regard to a mental illness or defect or mental state with regard to guilt and punishment' will be presented in the coming test
Stines, seen in his mugshot, did not argue guilty of killing charges after his arrest, and his lawyer indicated that he intends to give an insanity defense during the trial
Stijnen, seen after his arrest, reportedly said officers that his 'wife and child' were in danger when he was held for the shooting of Mullins
Since the shooting, Stines has remained in custody, which was recorded on shocking images that showed that the sheriff entered the rooms of Mullins and shoots eight bullets in him.
In the moments before that, civil servants said Stines tried to call his daughter before they took Mullins's phone and also tried to call her.
Prosecutors said the shooting apparently came out of nowhere, because the sheriff and the judge had enjoyed lunch together that afternoon.
They shared an outside table in the popular Streetside Grill & Bar in Main Street for lunch, just a few hundred meters from the courthouse.
The couple had long been friends and lunchtime Lamgasten together in the sports bar and on that fateful Thursday they ordered their usual – both with the $ 13.99 wings with salad.
Detectives investigate a potential motif, with a theory reportedly investigating by investigators whether Stines discovered his daughter's telephone number in Mullins' phone.
CCTV images that were played in court during a provisional hearing on 2 October showed stands that his phone checked before they called a phone call from the judge.
Kentucky State Police Detective Clayton Stamper testified that he was told that the sheriff had tried to contact his daughter from both devices.
The two men had become friends after Stines had served the bailiff of Mullins in his courthouse since 2009, before he was elected Sheriff in 2018.
Video of the shooting shows Stijnen who point his weapon to Mullins while his hands are lifted in the desk – but the Sheriff lawyers insist that the murder was not planned.
