LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Prosecutors have asked a psychological analysis for a former Kentucky sheriff charged with gunning down a pass judgement on in a courthouse closing yr after his legal professionals stated they’ll argue he was once emotionally disturbed on the time of the capturing.
The killing rocked the small Appalachian neighborhood of Whitesburg, the place citizens knew Shawn “Mickey” Stines to be longtime buddies with District Pass judgement on Kevin Mullins. Prosecutors have offered a video in courtroom of a person police known as Stines pulling out a handgun and capturing Mullins at his table on Sept. 19.
Prosecutors with the state legal professional common’s place of work filed a movement Monday asking the courtroom to permit a state physician to guage Stines’ declare “that he suffers, or has suffered, from a psychological illness or defect or another psychological situation that bears at the problems with guilt and punishment.”
Investigators have no longer introduced a cause for the capturing. Previous that day, the 2 males had met for lunch with a number of folks close to the courthouse, police stated.
Legal professionals for Stines wrote in a movement previous this month that they plan to provide proof that the ex-lawman suffered from madness and “excessive emotional disturbance” on the time he allegedly shot Mullins. Stines’ legal professionals stated they wouldn’t lift the problem of whether or not Stines is mentally are compatible to face trial.
“Whilst additional analysis is had to decide the level of the psychological well being proof in the long run offered, it’s our robust trust that our shopper was once working underneath excessive force that considerably impacted his psychological state,” Stines’ legal professional Kerri Bartley stated in an emailed commentary.
Stines stays jailed with out bond. At a January listening to, particular pass judgement on Chris Cohron stated he would absorb the problem of Stines’ bond at a later listening to. He has pleaded no longer accountable to at least one rely of homicide of a public respectable and resigned days after the capturing.
