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Did Corruption Drive Sheriff Stines to Murder a Judge?

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

News, True Crime, News Commentary

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Did Corruption Drive Sheriff Stines to Murder a Judge?

In the second half of this Hidden Killers Live special, Tony Brueski and defense attorney/former prosecutor Eric Faddis explore the darker backdrop of the Mickey Stines case: explosive corruption allegations inside the courthouse. From sexual coercion claims to systemic abuse of power, the discussion asks whether Stine's alleged mental collapse was driven by exposure to a rotten system — or whether he acted with motive and control.

The panel debates the steep uphill battle of an insanity defense, especially with video showing Stines acting methodically in the moments before pulling the trigger. They also analyze the difficulty of investigating corruption in a small community where silence, retaliation, and rumor rule. At stake is more than one man’s fate — this case is becoming a referendum on the credibility of the justice system itself, and whether the community can trust its own courts again.

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0:25.6

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0:29.5

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0:31.5

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0:36.8

I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever.

0:42.2

Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult.

0:46.6

But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good.

0:51.0

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0:54.8

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0:58.5

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels.

1:06.9

They're going to have to move this trial out of this community, I would think.

1:11.6

Don't you think? You know, Stacey, there has been, my understanding is that there may have even already been a motion to change venue.

1:19.6

Because, yeah, it is such a close, tight-knit community.

1:22.6

Everybody and knows everybody, and they're all talking and that kind of thing.

1:28.3

And so it wouldn't surprise me if they try to move this case out of that very limited jurisdiction to somewhere else,

1:36.3

where folks are less personally affected, they have less personal connections to the case,

1:41.3

and perhaps even some of the parties and witnesses in the case.

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