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KENTUCKY SHERIFF PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO KILLING JUDGE AT COURTHOUSE

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines faces first-degree murder charges
after he allegedly shot to death Judge Kevin Mullins in his courthouse chambers
last week.

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The Letcher County Sheriff's Department, shown on Friday in Whitesburg, Ky.
(Randy Sartin/AP)
By Kim Bellware
Updated September 25, 2024 at 12:17 p.m. EDT|Published September 25, 2024 at
10:52 a.m. EDT

A sheriff in eastern Kentucky pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder on
Wednesday, nearly a week after he was charged with shooting a local district
judge in a courthouse killing that shocked and mystified the small Appalachian
town of Whitesburg.

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Shawn “Mickey” Stines, the 43-year-old Letcher County sheriff, was arraigned via
virtual hearing before Chief Regional Judge Rupert Wilhoit, who was appointed to
serve as the special judge on Stines’s case.


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