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(NewsNation) — NewsNation has exclusively obtained audio recordings that could necktie a now-dead Kentucky justice to a sex-for-favors ungraded 1 week aft the suspect, a erstwhile sheriff, pleaded not blameworthy to sidesplitting him.
District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was successful his chambers astatine a courthouse successful Whitesburg, Kentucky, connected Sept. 19 erstwhile Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. “Mickey” Stines, 43, allegedly changeable and killed him.
The recordings are from the transgression probe into a Letcher County lawman sheriff who went to situation earlier this twelvemonth for rape and sodomy of a pistillate inmate successful 2022.
“He does person immoderate videotapes of immoderate worldly successful the judge’s chambers… conscionable with girls, intersexual and stuff,” said Sabrina Adkins, who has spoken publically astir her claims of erstwhile Deputy Sheriff Ben Fields utilizing his presumption of powerfulness to unit her and different women to person enactment successful speech for favorable treatment.
Adkins' attorney, Ned Pillersdorf, told NewsNation, "it's similar they were moving a brothel retired of that courtroom."
She and different pistillate filed a civilian rights suit against Fields successful 2022, astatine which constituent Stines fired him.
Fields pleaded blameworthy and was sentenced to six months successful the region jail, the Mountain Eagle reported.
Stines was besides named successful the suit for not decently grooming oregon supervising Fields. Stines was deposed successful the ongoing suit days earlier Mullins’ sidesplitting and said helium was not alert of immoderate wrongdoing astatine the time.
Adkins told constabulary she saw 1 of the videos, which she claims shows the lawman sheriff and “some higher ups” having enactment successful Mullins' chambers successful speech for granting the inmates bail to get retired of jail.
The researcher successful the audio asks Adkins to clarify who she saw successful the video.
“I seen Judge Mullins having enactment with a girl,” she said.
“Where was it at?” the researcher asked.
“In his office, successful the judge’s chambers,” she responded.
She knew it was the judge’s enclosure due to the fact that she had been determination before. According to the suit she filed, Fields told her they could “work thing out” erstwhile she informed him she couldn’t spend to wage for her ankle show for her location apprehension successful 2021.
Stines was arrested astatine the courthouse wherever Mullins was killed and charged with first-degree murder. He was arraigned Nov. 25 connected caller charges of execution of a nationalist official, which helium pleaded not guilty to done his lawyer.
Mullins served arsenic a justice for 15 years.
