BREAKING: Mickey Stines Defense Files to Remove Judge — Video Shows Cohron With Victim Before Murder

The Mickey Stines case just took a turn nobody predicted. A week ago, a hearing was supposed to move this case forward — bond arguments, venue fight, the works. Instead, Judge Christopher Cohron walked in, said there was an "issue," and shut it down. Now we know what the issue was: him.

Defense attorneys Jeremy and Kerri Bartley have filed a motion to recuse Cohron after an investigator discovered video showing the judge seated next to Kevin Mullins at a Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health meeting — seven days before Mullins was shot to death in his Letcher County chambers. According to the motion, Cohron sat inches from Mullins for approximately two hours. Mullins' widow was also present. The defense claims Cohron never disclosed any of this.

The timing is brutal. This is a case built entirely around Stines' mental state — whether he was legally insane, whether he was in psychosis, whether extreme emotional disturbance applies. And the judge presiding over it was filmed at a mental health meeting with the victim days before the killing, allegedly nodding along as Mullins discussed his work.

Cohron has already denied the defense's motion to unseal Stines' psychiatric evaluation. He blocked them from using it at the bond hearing. The defense is now arguing that a reasonable observer could connect those rulings to what they see in that video.

No hearing has been rescheduled. No bond. No trial date. Fifteen months in jail and counting. Everything stops until Cohron decides whether to stay or go.

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