Kentucky sheriff charged with murder in shooting death of judge

Kentucky Sheriff Mickey Stines is charged with murder for allegedly shooting and killing District Judge Kevin Mullins in his chambers at the Letcher County Courthouse after an argument.
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[@jeffreyhagelin3672]

This calls for life imprisonment.

[@johnnoone4323]

They know what happened. They just are figuring out what story they will tell to the public.

[@daxterclark5092]

Of course

[@Nancy-tr5fi]

Got that right! Idiots

[@cheeseheadfiddle]

Wow. How did you come to that conclusion?

[@Leann68]

I completely agree 👍🏻 my personal opinion, I think the sheriff is tired of criminals walking free.

[@foxie-d3x]

​@cheeseheadfiddle Because the cover up is always their primary concern. Muddle the facts intentionally.

[@bobbyduke777]

Police - "We have investigated ourselves, and found we have done nothing wrong, end of story"

[@PanhandleFrank]

This wasn't committed by "the police." It was committed by a person who was a law enforcement officer.

[@ffjsb]

Then why is the Sheriff in jail??? Kinda blows your whole BS theory out of the water....

[@thomasparsley8195]

​@@ffjsbactually it doesn't. It just shows you have your head in the sand.

[@eq1373]

​@thomasparsley8195 it does. Otherwise the sheriff would be walking free right now.

[@Tortilla.Reform]

@@PanhandleFrankYour excuse is hilarious, a member of law enforcement is the police, nice try though. You can’t have it both ways, and only expect people to group all police together on the good aspects of policing only and not the negatives

[@Cindy-dg8wh]

My husband always says this ENTIRE country has mental problems, unbelievable 😳

[@antonovverkhoyansk9170]

Its true. People do have mental issues.

[@alenalatham1471]

If you don't have jesus you'll lose your mind.

[@theupsidetv2007]

All thanks to Democrats who are running this country. Continue voting Democrat if you like what America has turned into!

[@haleyrobertson2383]

@@alenalatham1471This is laughable.

[@wanderingfido]

Wasn't the TV show _Justified_ based in Kentucky? 🤔I'm just sayin' 🤷‍♂️Even us Canadians were--and are--highly entertained by y'all. 🤪🇨🇦🤭

[@gregorychalmers2466]

A judge is a lawyer who knows a politician. I’m sure there was a reason for this

[@cyndimoring9389]

Are you assuming it’s political?

[@jondspen]

Judge is the combination of 3 most lying, unethical, shady profession - lawyer, politician, and used car sales (selling we the people a lemon government).

[@Alunaevergreen]

@@jondspenlol selling we the people a lemon 😂

[@lonnierichter6962]

​@@jondspenfrom someone who is pro law enforcement, sad part is to many cops have been caught in falsifying reports . When dash cam footage is played, the reports and dash cam footage doesn't show the same thing.

[@juanbait9670]

​@@cyndimoring9389personal, or political. Either he is letting criminals walk free, and he got tired of busting the same trash. Or the rumor of the judge messing with the sheriffs daughter, gotta be something worthy of messing up your career. The judge does look like a creepy liberal though, prolly guilty of both.

[@petermacander5039]

USELESS REPORT

[@doneown503]

absolutely

[@esdee878]

Well you stayed and watched it just to complain. 🙄🤡

[@RichardTClark396]

The whole world has gone nuts.😢

[@brahmburgers]

Not the whole world. Just the USA and other combat zones. I found a small island in Asia where there is none of this gun craziness. Everyone there is friendly, trusting and cheerful. I'm moving there, even tho I'll be the only foreigner residing on that island. It's the opposite of the USA.

[@kentalanlee]

@@brahmburgers You can run but you can't hide. Chaos will always find you. It just wears a different dress.

[@mrjjman2010]

@@kentalanlee lol no it doesnt shut up wierdo. pretending things just are what they are and actions make no difference is so gooooofy. your mind does not make reality, sorry mr main character syndrome

[@dutchdna]

Just MAGA's

[@KAT-dg6el]

@@dutchdna yeah keep telling yourself that 😂

[@Actual12]

I don't think Drew could have used more words to say virtually nothing.

[@timbanks7344]

Waste of 4 minutes, no info at all.

[@MBBHMM]

Thanks for the warning. I'm pulling out @ 54 seconds.

[@larrykempton9660]

Dumb me , I watched the whole thing ,and now I'm dumber .

[@jonasbaine3538]

@@MBBHMM they held me captive til @1:15😂

[@carrite]

Why do you send a reporter to smalltown Kentucky to point at an empty building and say that he knows nothing??? There is actual coverage of this, the likely reason behind this, on local TV news.

[@monicadelreal8212]

😂 right

[@tyrehester5550]

I know more than both of them, just by watching KZbin and rumble. Obviously they do little investigation before going on the air.

[@timsimmons9042]

😂😂 exactly what I was thinking. But I have to really laugh that the special council sent to ensure the mental health of the officers.

[@kevincrego6933]

Clowns covering for clowns. Freemason homosexuals run everything

[@tj7870]

@@kevincrego6933 ???

[@zacharyfett2491]

The Sheriff knows. I suspect every other law enforcement officer knows as well. They’re just not talking.

[@airadaimagery692]

I would hope the sheriff knows! Lol...

[@timbanks7344]

Who is this reporter, he has nothing to talk about, why bother putting him on.

[@airadaimagery692]

Lol, boy, this just ruined your day didn’t? I hope you feel better and can get some sleep tonight. Maybe watch some CNN before bed..

[@JohnMcKinney-yc8wf]

@@airadaimagery692 Spot on he is so used to CNN as they just say what they think happened and not having any facts!

[@teek.1059]

I have an idea. Why doesn't someone ASK THE SHERIFF why he shot the judge. Actually, they surely know they're just not saying anything. The news keeps posting but saying nothing. It appears my sarcasm wasn't getting through to some posters. The news keeps updating the story with absolutely no new information. That's why I said ask him. For all of you who figured it out, sorry.

[@Rambletambleforever]

Because if he has any brains he will only talk to his lawyer

[@njg26.gustav12]

Allegedly the judge and sheriff's 17 yr daughter....

[@kentalanlee]

@@njg26.gustav12 That'd do it.

[@chhansen9813]

Cant get anything past you!

[@johnligon2368]

Because they'll bury it

[@marshatrue8220]

It must be horrendous that a sheriff, who knows what the penalty would be, would weigh the risks and pull the trigger.

[@willieverusethis]

Or he's just a psychopath with a power trip. Everyone knows the penalty. Sheesh.

[@BennilocoLoves]

Lovers trist! 😒

[@xxxytheguy1296]

My thoughts exactly.

[@Valencia-fm5to]

Hmhmmm? That’s a thought🤔​@@BennilocoLoves 2:37 h 2:45

[@tinaleeth2707]

Crime of passion All reasoning goes out the window I'm guessing..,

[@sarahalbers5555]

Another example of top tier journalism

[@RollingRoadEFI]

They can always learn to code....

[@kingfish3066]

Man this guy has said so much to say nothing!!!

[@mikejohn0088]

He was a politician and jumped at the chance to further polish his articulation skills with the media.

[@ibelieveinyou502]

Did a judge and a deputy frame a sheriff ?

[@Adrew-bn9pv]

Possibly

[@nowandthennn]

Who knows because they were brothers in laws , married sisters .

[@ibelieveinyou502]

@@nowandthennn strange, kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmXCqJRsbsR8sM0si=LJcwn0fP6h8As5B6

[@dutchdna]

The judge is dead. Who got framed? The judge.

[@mikeellis5347]

​@@nowandthennn which ones were brother in laws ?

[@dianagalloway9389]

No need to ask questions. The reporter is not answering anything.

[@bamaboy108]

Way to talk for four minutes and not say anything at all. That was the most useless standup ever in the history of useless standups. If you don’t have anything new, don’t bother.

[@Dc225_]

Who heard the argument if they were the only people there?

[@airadaimagery692]

The cameras.

[@Dc225_]

@@airadaimagery692 i feel like they wouldve said “security cameras showed…” etc., if that was the case

[@paladro]

we know a sheriff's deputy was found guilty of raping a suspect in custody and this sheriff was responsible for hiring said deputy... judge was dressing down the sheriff for his role in this crime and shame. terrible policing in this neck of the woods.

[@sandib4234]

It is terrible everywhere which I'm sure you have noticed, if we don't get the biden administration out of the White House and get Trump in this nation is in big trouble!!!

[@MAGaBAMA_84]

I think it ties into the guy who shot 5 people. His body was found almost the same time this case took place, and the area is pretty close.

[@craigroseburgh9348]

⁠@@sandib4234Hell Naw, with Trump back in office this country will go down faster than one Of his farts or another outrageous Lie. People can’t stand his fartin or his lying.

[@rosek.5531]

@@sandib4234 In a Town Hall interview with Trump and Hannity, Trump was asked if he will be a Dictator when he takes office. Trumps response was, "On Day One!". Then Hannity tells Trump to "please reassure people that you won't be a Dictator because people are worried" and Trump responds, AGAIN, "On Day One!". The interview is on KZbin. Watch it.

[@brotherlittlefoot2216]

They know the motive. Things like this don't happen within a "brotherhood" without many of those ppl knowing exactly what the motive was.

[@Grigsy]

Is there any proof This sheriff even had a daughter, given all these rumors? Nobody is talking about the fact he was a defendant in a federal lawsuit.

[@jonb-h2z]

That sheriff is in for a bad time, unless he gets protection. Hes about to meet all the people he put behind bars.

[@KAT-dg6el]

They put cops in different prisons in special areas to keep them safe from the regular prisoners.

[@Alex-jx5bx]

He may become a leader over there😮

[@vthomas2313]

@@KAT-dg6el YEAH RIGHT

[@jonasbaine3538]

I think they send them to entirely different county or state. Regardless, prisoners have internet these days…

[@umbutambwe9616]

This journalist has absolutely presented no substance in his speech.. so bunch of empty words and no message!

[@whs-waterfox7034]

Odds are that this judge was about to legally ruin this cop's life for some kind of misconduct and the cop figured he no longer had the incentive to refrain from murdering his enemy.

[@jeannesullivan6154]

The judge was a predator I guarantee it.

[@mike4402]

judges let criminals go, police catch criminals, criminals see judge and it loops like this forever

[@airadaimagery692]

That doesn’t have anything to do with what happen.

[@whs-waterfox7034]

Grow up.

[@willieverusethis]

That's not at all how it works. The whole system works to imprison the poor and give the rich slaps on the wrist.

[@ELeeZimmermanSciFiHistoryNet]

I've seen all over social media that the judge was allegedly harassing the sheriff's teenage daughter. I've Googled this story, but I'm not seeing that anywhere else.

[@PJ-64]

That's what I see everywhere on this too but it went a lot further than just harassing

[@cho7707]

The locals talked about it. Google won't discuss it.

[@darklorddisco]

Would it be possible to STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION or is that simply too difficult for you?

[@atpg5]

@@darklorddisco It's Kentucky !!

[@airadaimagery692]

@@darklorddiscoshe claim that she read it on social media. How do you equate that to HER spreading misinformation? I see that as a warning that someone else could be spreading misinformation, which I would give her credit for. Because somewhere somebody else is in fact spreading misinformation. Why don’t you go find them and ask them that question?

[@steve_anderson]

Judge looks like central casting for random "creepy dude".

[@juanbait9670]

Big time

[@AmericanWoman4567]

I thought the same. Creepy looking dude

[@andallthatcouldhavebeen...9175]

Chomoface for sure. That was my very first thought when I first saw this story.

[@BennilocoLoves]

They both look creepy af! 🫣 Yikes!

[@TheOtherBolynGirl101]

Sheriff looks even creepier!

[@djveles4629]

It was self defense. Judge was playing Eric Clapton. But he did not shoot the deputy.

[@DorcasLandry]

LOL! That was going thru my brain too

[@mrwilliamwonder]

I WAS LISTENING TO THE SCANNER and a deputy keyed the mic and played “I shot the sheriff” on his radio.

[@jodymcgrady8654]

😅😂 Comment of the day! 🏆

[@cestall1]

There is a reason so many people just read headlines and not the articles. Because they rarely SAY ANYTHING. They're so desperate to be "first" that they'll pack a news article with so much fluff, pointless reactions, "thoughts and prayers," and other nonsense that you just waste your time by trying to get any real information.

[@HotaruGlaive]

But sadly the headlines are becoming clickbait so just reading them alone is meaningless too.

[@kennethgarland1021]

Hey Sheriff why did you shoot a judge , America wants to know .

[@theappalachianamerican2074]

There is much more to this story than what was reported. Almost 100% of comments from the people of the ky town say that the judge was in the wrong.

[@DebbieOnTheSpot]

There is way more info available than this network is telling you

[@Pedro91795]

Available where ???

[@george6252]

This is the prime reason I often read the comments first. Thanks guys.

[@edmclendon9399]

The judge messed with the wrong guy.

[@lorenzopowell7079]

The sheriff is sick and people who say what you say are too.

[@user-kn7hm5kd2q]

Never clean your weapon in the judges chamber!

[@DorcasLandry]

👍

[@MD-ii3ry]

The judge was messing with his underage daughter! No one would press charges on the judge!

[@stewblare2190]

he's the sheriff. and dad, if any person could of press charges. its him.

[@billolson4986]

​@@stewblare2190well, in one way he did 'press a charge'.

[@atpg5]

Underage in Kentucky? That's under the age of twelve !!

[@airadaimagery692]

@@atpg5actually age of consent in KY is 16.

[@jploeg8862]

Sheriffs don't press charges, District attorneys do. Likely the judge and county attorney are both degenerates. This kind of stuff happens frequently. Their usually isn't a remedy, unless you do what this sheriff did...

[@beckykent6674]

So we can't carry guns into the court room and apparently cops can't either!!😅😅

[@samuestos6908]

A motive too embarrassing to share. Come on, let's hear it.

[@cynthiawanek8353]

First report I seen was sheriff was arresting the judge when this happened. If that is the case why was he going to arrest him. Was this a arrest gone wrong and is it because it was a judge they are treating it differently?

[@erictheawful69]

That’s a very good point and it’s entirely a possibility!

[@troybullard9631]

Nahhhh, if the sheriff went into the judge's chamber intentending to arrest him, I'm pretty sure that he would have had at LEAST one of his deputy's there to assist him. That is, if that was his REAL and only intention.

[@jennifermcqueen5245]

Judge was messing with the Sheriff's daughter.

[@whs-waterfox7034]

Stop being....just...the way you are. Grow up.

[@user-xp6vy4pi8b]

​@@whs-waterfox7034 That's the rumor. And one of very few reasons a man would do that. Would make it make sense. But at this point, a rumor is all it is.

[@whs-waterfox7034]

@@user-xp6vy4pi8b Seems much more likely that a sheriff would arrest the judge instead of ruining his own life. Not everyone has the mindset of an angry 12 year old, yknow.

[@imawatchin6295]

Don’t they have protections for law-enforcement because of the stress that they endure that when they snap they’re not treated like Citizens that snap??? This Judge must’ve really done something to make this Sheriff snap!

[@pamavery9352]

I agree useless report!!! Don’t bother

[@lev0n3241968]

I highly doubt this was just over an "argument." Something tells me this was a "he had it coming" type of situation.

[@kennethwiggins4396]

This maybe distasteful but I have to wonder if the Sheriff is going to try and claim police misconduct/brutality for his arrest?

[@karencollins2661]

This is a new one on me

[@sylviablackman1665]

Give us the facts.

[@jimlampert2897]

Corrupt judge

[@TheOtherBolynGirl101]

Murdering sheriff!

[@juliamontalvo9717]

Shouldn't have messed with his daughter

[@TheOtherBolynGirl101]

That’s only a rumor. Perhaps the judge’s family needs to start suing you people!

[@barbaracompton9987]

Judge was messing with his 16 year old daughter

[@alanmorris7669]

Are you serious?

[@MichaelAluminumCan]

That's what I suspected from the second I saw this on my home page. The argument before the shots certainly wasn't the only one. The judge looks creepy.

[@stewblare2190]

17. and thats a rumor.

[@saintlybeginnings]

Allegedly..

[@Meg-c2p]

​@@stewblare2190why else on Earth would a Sheriff blast a judge for no good reasons??? Something serious was happening more than a small disagreement that's for sure...

[@alicewood1665]

This case needs to be moved to another jurisdiction he will never get a fair trial there.

[@HolyFamilyHermit]

The judge should have just complied

[@Zoe-c9z]

JUDGE NOT, OR YOU WILL BE JUDGED.

[@maryannegunter115]

Judge not lest ye be judged

[@KAT-dg6el]

And just think 85% of the people making these comments are “christians” 😂

[@DebbieOnTheSpot]

Cops are finally serving out justice in kentucky

[@sammyday3341]

I can’t imagine the instant regret of pulling that trigger. You go from being a free man one minute, to a life in a cage the next. Ugh. How foolish.

[@KAT-dg6el]

It’s called emotion

[@danielscarbrough4363]

Maybe the judge was RESISTING arrest, maybe had a gun of his own and things got dicey...that happens, and sometime the suspect dies! Reality...we can't judge the sheriff with no back story and break down of the encounter.

[@airadaimagery692]

@@danielscarbrough4363allegedly, the judge was sleeping w the sheriffs daughter so he shot him 9 times. There’s your encounter.

[@darklorddisco]

@@airadaimagery692 That's funny, I thought you didn't understand how spreading rumors works

[@user-xp6vy4pi8b]

​@darklorddisco You know what they say about rumors? A lot of times, they're true.

[@Exploitiv]

This sheriff is going to walk free, all he has to say is that he was in fear for his life and he was reaching for something and thought it might have been a weapon.

[@Bancheis]

A gavel could be a weapon.

[@user-qq4nb8qz4x]

Does this have anything to do with the sheriff's underage daughter?

[@healdiseasenow]

Corruption disagreement?

[@patrickmiller1834]

Well this seems typical of your ole Kentucky Home. Everybody got a pistol

[@saffronwetter2221]

We all can go figure it's a Dem's Judge, Otherwise ABC news media would be accusing Trump and MAGA for it, You can bet on that one,😂

[@parkerxgps]

So many leo's have no business as such. How criminals get a badge.

[@josietaylor4805]

The sheriff took the law into his own hands he was judge, jury and executioner. He will probably get 6 years because that’s all government employees get for their crimes.

[@user-wz9wj8eo8f]

If defunding the police and taking away all the guns in America, i.e. Kamala gets her way, the Police would be armed with a book of harse commands and just feelings would be hurt. A little time spent in "time out" and we are all good.

[@rocksteady8313]

Corruption gone bad ?

[@quintinr.6760]

A 17 year old is not going to be involved with a man that old. That judge did something real bad to that child and she is a child. The father did what he had to do.

[@WayneQuick-p3r]

A retired judge shouldn't fill the bench the new judge should be elected hold the Town Council and elect somebody don't start doing crooked s*** again they were probably crooked that's why Democratic crooked judges

[@stewblare2190]

District judges get appointed. Circuit Court judges get elected.

[@jaredboyd2957]

I’ll be willing to bet this judge threatened this sheriff somehow.

[@captnhuffy]

Lemme guess: Family court judge.. which can be radically unfair to males.

[@DavidKalnbach-vm3xc]

🤔 ..cops finally figure out where the REAL criminal's are..??

[@applejuicejunkie316]

They're mad at the court room bench jumper, but don't realize some of these judges hide behind their robes to commit crimes too. Just like some of these police officers hide behind their "shield."

[@IYamWhatIYam136]

Police covering for the boss. No info available.

[@Jerzy__Kingz124cs]

Is it possible that an argument between the two being friends outside of work allegedly about the judge had inappropriate physical contact with the sheriff's daughter

[@oscarwarren469]

The victim didn't get out fast enough and talked back while appearing in black.

[@EricMagee-x2c]

He knows the law why would he talk

[@dorothywaugh4164]

People will never hear the truth about this!! Trying to keep this out of the Main Stream Media!!

[@simonandga]

Those days are over. The Bible says: "Be assured your sins will find you out".

[@DouglasMorning]

Useless reporting!!!

[@fernfleites2956]

NOW YOU SEE WHAT WE ALL GO THROUGH,WITH CORRUPT COPS.

[@jonecliptic]

You don't know anything about this smh ...

[@carrite]

@@jonecliptic - He knows more than this reporter does, certainly.

[@Rambletambleforever]

So what if it comes out that the judge was messing with his daughter?

[@SarahPerine]

They look related. A family dispute always makes sense😹

[@atpg5]

Family tree is a stick !!

[@jennifermcqueen5245]

They know why

[@jeffreygoss8109]

They might as well inform us that before shots were fired the trigger was pulled

[@bluarq4534]

Now you see why we are such a violent society. Did the sheriff use his service ar15?

[@HotaruGlaive]

Both of these guys look like they belong on some 1950's movie about the mob.

[@Djang221]

from the netherlands: as if America aint getting fascist enough

[@Susan-px7hf]

OUR SYSTEM IS REALLY IN BAD SHAPE....ARE JUDGES BEING THREATENED??

[@WillyJackson-if6zf]

MAYBE THE JUDGE WAS THE ONE DOING THE THREATENING

[@schan9547]

A few more months and he would have had presidential federal immunity and walked away scott free.

[@TheOtherBolynGirl101]

Trump is losing, you know!

[@thetruthchannel349]

Definitely Kentucky. I can explain exactly what happened here. Its happening everywhere & has been for 200 years. Its why you cant tolerate local corruption.

[@Constable_Chud]

"aN aRgUmEnT" It's because the honorable judge deserved to have a seat with Chris Hansen in front of him, not a seat with a gavel in front of him. The judge was m*l*sting the Sheriff's child. ...Why'd you leave that part out?

[@desmondjefferson2127]

Scottie Scheffler is feeling fortunate that he left that state alive🤯

[@simonandga]

Before the Sheriff is dragged through the mud, consider the Judge allegedly did something to the Sheriff's daughter per alternative news media. js

[@user-ln8hp4vt5z]

Justice has been Served. Thank you Officer for your Service 🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸.

[@DavidS-bm2st]

Very Few people in this world ever actually get Justice. The rest are left to deal with the courts.

[@beastshawnee]

You are applauding a sheriff (sworn to uphold the law) for murdering a judge? ok- you may be right- Tell us your perspective…was this judge super corrupt? too harsh? too lenient? Why did this particular judge need to die?

[@TheOtherBolynGirl101]

Sick!

[@darklorddisco]

Bot

[@user-ln8hp4vt5z]

@@TheOtherBolynGirl101 and your Pathetic Ignorance continues. How Pathetically Ignorant. Thank you for your ignorant reply.

[@carmenycruz5827]

Look it up there is more information as to why? Judge was having an alleged relationship with the officer's 17 year old daughter. Only the minor can confirm or deny said alleged allegations.

[@db4023]

How can this happen in a Red state?

[@TheOtherBolynGirl101]

I REALLY hope that was sarcasm!

[@reggihc]

I heard that the judge and sheriff were in love with the same goat. That's what happened . It's a story as old as the age's. It is Kentucky after all. Mystery solved. Apparently it was a very sexy goat. Sad,,,

[@BCarnes]

they know the motive. they just dont want to say

[@TheAstrofromspace]

The judge was beating the inside of the sheriff daughter and wife too

[@brendabrazell2556]

They know they just don't want too say.

[@Dawilldeal]

Someone was having an affair with someone's wife maybe🤷‍♂️

[@CaylorsReptilesAquatics]

So, basically no news