Two months after video showed him shooting a Kentucky judge at point-blank range in his chambers, former Sheriff Shawn ‘Mickey’ Stines has been indicted for murder.

A former Kentucky sheriff has been indicted in the slaying of a judge who was gunned down in his courthouse chambers two months ago.

Former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn "Mickey" Stines has been indicted for murder of a public official more than two months after a judge was shot.

By Tom Latek Kentucky Today Attorney General Russell Coleman and Commonwealth’s Attorney for the 27th Judicial Circuit Jackie Steele announced last week that action by their joint prosecution resulted in the indictment of former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines,

A grand jury has indicted a rural Kentucky sheriff who gunned down his longtime judge pal in his chambers during a heated exchange — in a vicious murder that could make him eligible for the death penalty.

A former Kentucky sheriff, Shawn 'Mickey' Stines, is facing the death penalty after being indicted for the murder of District Judge Kevin Mullins in Whitesburg on September 19.