MICKEY STINES, THE KENTUCKY JUDGE MURDERING SHERIFF, PLEADS NOT GUILTY AND REFUSES TO RESIGN
Pretty much everyone heard about the Kentucky sheriff who murdered a judge in the judge’s chambers, in the courthouse that said sheriff was (is?) responsible for security. It was damn strange, and hasn’t become any more understandable now than when the story broke. The sheriff, of course, is Mickey Stines. The 43-year-old, pictured above in his very own mugshot while being booked on 1st Degree murder charges, isn’t saying much of anything yet for us to know. But you can be sure that whatever we do learn, it’s likely going to be a huge pile of Idaho potatoes after passing thru the digestive tract of a rodeo bull with dysentery. Because the sheriff has not only pled not guilty, he refuses to resign.
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JUEDGE ND SHERIFF WERE FRIENDS FOR YEARS, AND SMALL KENTUCKY TOWN STILL SHOCKED OVER MURDER
So what do we actually know? We know that the sheriff shot judge Kevin Mullins dead in his chambers in the courthouse in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and that no one else was there. We know that the two men were friends who had worked together for years, and had plans to have lunch together the day of the shooting. And we know that Whitesburg is a small Appalachian town of about 1,700 people, the kind of town where everyone knows everyone, and that all the residents were completely shocked at the news of their sheriff murdering the judge of 15 years.
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WITH ARRESTED SHERIFF REFUSING TO RESIGN, KENTUCKY GOVERNOR WILL MOVE TO REMOVE HIM
Most residents who have commented since the shooting have said good and supportive things about both men, and can’t understand what happened or why. Yet now that Sheriff Stines is refusing to resign, the spotlight is expanding in Kentucky, with Governor Andy Beshear now publicly calling on Stines to resign by the end of yesterday. Well, that didn’t happen. So now, according to state law, we can expect the Governor to start the process of removing the judge murdering sheriff. But apparently, this isn’t done often, and can take quite a long time to accomplish.
So this story is bound to resurface quite a bit in the months to come, between getting the judge murdering sheriff out of office, and trying to parse whatever Sheriff Stines says as a rationale as to how he could possibly be not guilty. Queue the confused banjo song….
