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in small town in Eastern Kentucky a place where everybody knows everyone.
Letcher county sheriff shawn stein and kevin mullins returned to the county courthouse after having lunch together in a local restruant .
when suddenly a moment no one saw coming caught on surveillance camera in the judge’s chambers with the judge casually smoking a ciggarette
in what appeared to be a chat between friends,the sheriff draws his gun repeatedly shooting and killing the judge .
leaving the small town of whitesburge kentucky in utter disbelief.
the unbelievable image printed on the front page of the local paper.
and everyone in this small part pf appalachia is now wondering how could something like this happened between two men who have worked together for over a decade .
as detaills remain elusive
shawn stein is going from sheriff to defendant.
facing justic for killing judge kevin mullins
prosecutors showing the brazen shooting in court at a preliminary hearing.
the sheriff reaches over the desk the judge trapped with nowhere to go as the kentucky law man shoots the man he once worked for as a bailiff
defense lawyers questioned the lead detective about why this could have happened.
sheriff stein had tried to call his daughter and he tried to call his daughter from the judge’s phone also
was that call to sheriff stine’s teenage daughter using the judge’s phone the motive or is it part of the mystery
this video posted on stines social media account in2018 shows the sheriff and his daughter lipsyncing to the song” shot the sheriff”
but how did stines go from singing ” i shot the sheriff” to the sheriff shoots the judge
husband and wife legal team jeremy and karrie bartley are defending the former sheriff who resigned his position after the shooting.
the defense team saying that what we see on tape is shocking but it only tells part of the story and so far they’ve only seen a small fraction of the evidence in this case.
what are we not seeing ,that’s the big question
another shocker in the case listen what the sheriff says after he’s been arrested for the shooting.
he made a comment that the’re trying to kidnap his wife and kid
what that all means is only adding to the growing mystery the defense team saying thay are continuing to gather evidence to defend the sheriff.
those who have been in front of the judge are coming to his defense
heather and keisha says that judge mullins chose to put them in drug rehab rather then behind bars and they credit his kindness for their recovery.
but others point t a dark secret going on inside this courthouse involving sheriff stine and judge mullins
Ned a attorny who says he had a tense deposition with stine just days before the shooting
in the law suit a women claims that a deputy understein coercedher to have sex in mullins chambersin return for her not to having to pay incarceration fees.
the deputy pleaded guilty to charge a stemming from that case and was sentenced to six months behind bars plus probation.
they allege though that for certainly an extended period of time they turned that courthouse into a brothel
meanwhile this mystery will play out inside the letcher county courthouse as the community graples with the loss of a judge they all knew .
as they loook to make sense over why a sheriff took the law into his own hands.