His daughter showed up on the Judges phone. Judge was banging chicks left and right to stave off jail, and so were the deputies.
After the shooting, Stines surrendered to authorities without incident and reportedly said, “They’re trying to kidnap my wife and kid.”
But other reports say the wife left him and took the daughter because he was behaving erratically.
As I’ve followed the case, it centers on the deputy serving as the judge’s bailiff who was convicted of sexual assault and misconduct with a female prisoner IN the judge’s chambers.
Depositions were being taken in a civil trial suing the sheriff for damages as a result of the criminal convictions.
I had to wonder if the Sheriff felt he was taking all the heat for the deputy’s misconduct as he was on his payroll although in a judge/bailiff situation, it could be argued that the judge was more of his immediate supervisor than the sheriff.
The judge should have known and be held responsible for what his bailiff was doing in his chambers.
Was the judge contacting family members to pressure and even threaten them to convince the sheriff to take all the heat and leave the judge out of it.
That is just pure speculation at this point.
The civil suit would have definitely been stressful and there may have been a lot of dirty dealings going on beyond what the deputy did.
The insanity defense or extreme emotional distress could be made on those grounds.
It’s a very small town, and it’s hard to believe that there was anything going on in that courthouse that was known by a lot of folk.
Evidently this female prisoner had the courage to take on the courthouse crowd and was fortunate to find the authorities to bring her some measure of justice.
There is lot of back story here and I find it hard to believe the judge was a complete innocent, particularly now that we are seeing how the judicial branch is populated with a lot of corrupt power-hungry scumbags.
Bad judge?