BREAKING: Attorney Eric Faddis on Mickey Stines Recusal Fight — Will Judge Cohron Be Removed?

The Mickey Stines murder case is frozen — and the reason is a video nobody knew existed until now. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins True Crime Today to break down the recusal motion that could change everything.

Former Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines is charged with murdering District Judge Kevin Mullins in his courthouse chambers in September 2024. The shooting was captured on video. The defense isn't disputing Stines pulled the trigger — they're arguing he was legally insane. But now, before any of that gets argued in front of a jury, the defense is fighting to remove the judge.

According to court filings, Special Judge Christopher Cohron was filmed seated inches from Mullins at a Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health meeting — seven days before Mullins was killed. The defense claims Cohron never disclosed this. They're now arguing that his rulings — blocking the psychiatric evaluation from being unsealed, barring it from the bond hearing — show an appearance of bias that cannot stand in a case where mental health is the entire defense.

Eric Faddis has been on both sides of fights like this. He walks us through the legal standard for recusal, what happens if Cohron denies the motion, and how this could escalate to Kentucky's Chief Justice. We also get into the venue battle, the death penalty decision that still hasn't been made, and what fifteen months of procedural gridlock tells us about how the system handles a case this tangled.

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