Crime Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Stines guns down judge in his chambers

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Kentucky sheriff charged in judge's murder did not plan killing, caught in 'heat of passion': lawyer

Shawn Stines, the Kentucky sheriff accused of shooting District Judge Kevin Mullins dead in his chambers, was suffering an "extreme emotional disturbance," according to his lawyer.
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"A video of the shooting, played without audio during an Oct. 1 preliminary hearing, allegedly showed Letcher County Sheriff Stines shooting District Judge Kevin Mullins multiple times as he sat at his desk on Sept. 19.

The sheriff, the judge's longtime colleague and friend, allegedly continued to fire after Mullins fell to the floor."

Anyone from Kentucky or know more about this story? The story implies an inappropriate link between the judge and the shooter's daughter. But that doesn't make sense to me.
 
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They had just went to lunch together and were friends. When they got back to the office the cop tried calling his daughter and then asked the judge to borrow his phone to try calling her again. Judge gives the cop his phone and when the cop entered his daughter's number he sees that the number was already saved in the phone. No word on why it was in the phone, but that's what the story is and the FBI is hacking the mainframe on all of the phones to get a better idea of what was happening.

Also, there was a cop who was banging a parolee in that judge's office in exchange for paying the fees on her ankle monitor. Judge was cleared of knowing about it, but the Sheriff was said to have turned a blind eye to it.

Edit: Now I see that you likely already read what I wrote because I missed the line about the link between daughter/judge. I regret nothing.
 
People will eventually think the Judge and the Sheriff's daughter have a relationship. We're just not sure how intimate this could be. But seems enough for a father to kill the judge.
 
Could it be related to the sheriff's divorce case? Custody after the divorce?

My search skills are a bit lacking today. I will try to find the wife's name and the divorce filing.
 
Poon Goon said:
No word on why it was in the phone, but that's what the story is and the FBI is hacking the mainframe on all of the phones to get a better idea of what was happening.


Edit: Now I see that you likely already read what I wrote because I missed the line about the link between daughter/judge. I regret nothing.
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Do you regret stating that the FBI is hacking the mainframe of the phones? Are you writing from an HP desktop at the public library?
 
This happened a few weeks ago and it seems like there's no new information. Weird.
 
People from the area say the sheriff was possibly abusive to his wife and or daughter. The judge and his family were friends with the sheriff and his family. The judge and his wife helped the sheriffs wife and daughter leave him. The talk at the lunch was about this and that is why the judge said they should talk in private. The sheriff was able to track the daughters phone but the wife had a burner phone so he was not positive that the judge and his wife were helping or hiding them. While in the judges chamber the sheriff first tried to call the wife and daughter from his phone but either answered and that is when he went to use the judges phone and saw his daughters number was already in the judges phone. He then knew the judge was helping out the wife and daughter and killed him. There are also some reports that the sheriffs wife had previously had meetings with divorce attorneys from another county in the recent months.
 
Staph infection said:
People from the area say the sheriff was possibly abusive to his wife and or daughter. The judge and his family were friends with the sheriff and his family. The judge and his wife helped the sheriffs wife and daughter leave him. The talk at the lunch was about this and that is why the judge said they should talk in private. The sheriff was able to track the daughters phone but the wife had a burner phone so he was not positive that the judge and his wife were helping or hiding them. While in the judges chamber the sheriff first tried to call the wife and daughter from his phone but either answered and that is when he went to use the judges phone and saw his daughters number was already in the judges phone. He then knew the judge was helping out the wife and daughter and killed him. There are also some reports that the sheriffs wife had previously had meetings with divorce attorneys from another county in the recent months.
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This is definitely not the way I expected this story to work out.
 
Damn that's brutal.

Could be the setup for a bad joke...

"Two judges, a jury, and an executioner walk into a room. Who walks out?"

"A sheriff"

<mma3>
 
Staph infection said:
People from the area say the sheriff was possibly abusive to his wife and or daughter. The judge and his family were friends with the sheriff and his family. The judge and his wife helped the sheriffs wife and daughter leave him. The talk at the lunch was about this and that is why the judge said they should talk in private. The sheriff was able to track the daughters phone but the wife had a burner phone so he was not positive that the judge and his wife were helping or hiding them. While in the judges chamber the sheriff first tried to call the wife and daughter from his phone but either answered and that is when he went to use the judges phone and saw his daughters number was already in the judges phone. He then knew the judge was helping out the wife and daughter and killed him. There are also some reports that the sheriffs wife had previously had meetings with divorce attorneys from another county in the recent months.
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that's what I am hearing too. did she actually file for divorce or was in the process? I cannot find the filing.

If was getting divorce and losing custody, that puts context into his comment of "they are trying to kidnap my family."
 
terrapin said:
This is definitely not the way I expected this story to work out.
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Yeah, it is a wild story but would sort of makes sense with the how this all unfolded.
Limeade said:
that's what I am hearing too. did she actually file for divorce or was in the process? I cannot find the filing.

If was getting divorce and losing custody, that puts context into his comment of "they are trying to kidnap my family."
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The reports I saw said she was consulting with divorce attorneys in another county. So, I do not think she started the actual divorce yet.

The media is really keeping it under wraps for now and they seem to know more than they are reporting to the people but in the comments of most news stories locals are talking about it and how it is well known by the locals what was really going on.
 
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