Mickey Stines Mental Breakdown EXPOSED: Prosecutors Want Judge Mullins Trial MOVED
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Court documents reveal a man in freefall. The day before the shooting, Stines was diagnosed with acute stress reaction. Witnesses told investigators he was "losing it," that his anxiety was "completely off the charts," that they believed he was in psychosis. He'd lost forty pounds in two weeks. He told coworkers "they" were going to kill his wife and daughter—but never said who "they" were. Four days after the shooting, a jail social worker found him still in active psychosis, unaware of his surroundings, requiring antipsychotic medication and pepper spray to control.
The shooting came just three days after Stines was deposed in a federal lawsuit alleging his deputy coerced women into sex inside Mullins's chambers. That lawsuit also named Stines for failing to supervise. Multiple women have made allegations about what happened in that office—allegations that have never been proven and that Mullins, now dead, cannot answer.
Prosecutors say they can't try this case in Letcher County. The crime scene is the courthouse. Both men were elected officials everyone voted for. The defense says keep it local—national coverage means nowhere is untouched. Meanwhile, Stines faces the death penalty, and his lawyers are building an insanity defense around a paper trail of warnings nobody acted on.
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| 0:00.0 | is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Brucey. |
| 0:06.1 | The prosecution wants to move this trial out of Letcher County. Let that sink in for a second. |
| 0:12.8 | The Commonwealth of Kentucky, the state, the state is asking the court to relocate the murder trial of Mickey Steins. |
| 0:20.3 | Not the defense, the prosecution. |
| 0:22.7 | In nearly every criminal case you've ever followed, |
| 0:25.3 | it's the defendant begging for the change of venue, |
| 0:28.3 | arguing the local jury pool has already convicted them in their minds. |
| 0:32.8 | Here, the people are trying to put Steins away for life. |
| 0:37.7 | And they're the one saying, we can't do this in Lechter County. |
| 0:41.2 | We cannot get a fair result here. |
| 0:44.3 | And when you understand the architecture of this case, not just legally, but physically, socially, politically, their logic becomes almost impossible to argue with. |
| 0:51.9 | Both sides should honestly be begging for this to be done. |
| 0:54.9 | But if one's already doing it and they're the side that actually has the choice, |
| 0:58.3 | well, okay, it will probably be done. |
| 1:03.1 | As we go through this story in the comment section on YouTube, |
| 1:06.7 | be sure to give us your thoughts. |
| 1:08.7 | This is a very complex, very bizarre case. |
| 1:12.2 | And be sure to press subscribe so you don't miss any of this as we continue to follow it here, |
| 1:17.0 | especially as we get into 2026 and we actually get to a trial. |
| 1:22.9 | Let's start with the obvious. |
| 1:24.7 | The crime scene is the courthouse. |
| 1:45.1 | Judge Kevin Mullins was shot to death in his own chambers on September 19th, 2024. That room sits inside this very same courthouse. The same building where Mickey Steins has been appearing for pretrial conferences. The same building where status hearings have been held. The same building where if this case stays put, he would stand trial for murder. The prosecution's filing says it |
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