FILE - Former Letcher County Ky. Sheriff Shawn "Mickey" Stines looks over at the prosecutors during a hearing at the Morgan County Courthouse in West Liberty, Ky., Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Jeremy Bartley, the attorney for ex-Letcher County Sheriff Shawn "Mickey" Stines, speaks at a press conference on Nov. 25, 2024, following Stine's arraignment in the September fatal shooting of district judge Kevin Mullins in Whitesburg, Ky. (Tasha Poullard/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)

Ex-Letcher County Sheriff Shawn "Mickey" Stines in tears seeing his family as he enters a Letcher County Circuit Court courtroom on November 25, 2024, during his arraignment for the September fatal shooting of district judge Kevin Mullins in Whitesburg, Ky. (Tasha Poullard/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)