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The prosecution in Russell Brand’s trial called the people the fifth complainant says she told — her parents, a sexual health nurse who treated her in 2009, her then-manager, friends and a former boyfriend — in what English courts allow as evidence of a consistent account. The defence used the same witnesses to probe inconsistencies: a message she sent years later saying she was young and stupid and probably as much to blame, a police statement in which her ex-boyfriend said she had “come round” to it, and a best friend’s acknowledgment that the word rape wasn’t used the first time. The jury also heard the second complainant’s 999 call. Brand, 51, denies all seven charges; the prosecution is expected to rest by mid-week. Also: a former colleague testified that Matthew Farwell said he had to “put crazy back in the bag” weeks before Sandra Birchmore’s death, after a friend of hers reported their relationship to Stoughton police. And a Los Angeles judge set a February trial date for David Burke, the singer known as d4vd, who has pleaded not guilty in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Garret Fisher reports. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

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The fifth complainant in Russell Brand’s trial was cross-examined at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday, completing the evidence of all six women. Ian Winter KC put to her that she had been a massive fan, that she went to Brand’s home knowing sex would happen, that she agreed to what took place, and that Brand “had pushed you and probably had treated you like an animal, but he didn’t rape you.” She replied that she did not consent to what happened to her, and told the court: “We are not here to discuss my morality.” She said she had carried guilt and shame for years, for exactly the reason the defence was putting to her — that she brought it on herself. On re-examination she told prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones KC there had been no conversation beforehand, no warning, and that she asked him to stop. Brand, 51, denies all seven charges. Also: Bryan Kohberger’s appellate lawyer has filed again to disqualify Judge Steven Hippler, citing reports the judge appeared to wipe away tears at sentencing. And jurors in Virginia watched Naresh Bhatt buy gloves, cleaning supplies and air freshener in the days after his wife, Mamta Kafle Bhatt, disappeared. Garret Fisher reports. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

All six complainants have now given evidence in the trial of Russell Brand, 51, at Southwark Crown Court. On Tuesday the jury heard from the fourth complainant, who alleges he assaulted her at a London radio station in the mid-2000s in front of his entourage; from the sixth, who worked at Channel 4 in 2009 and says colleagues suggested she give him a massage before he put his head in her lap, and who told the jury she reported it to her line manager at the time; and from the fifth, whose recorded police interview was played, alleging rape at his London home after a consensual encounter days earlier. Each was cross-examined by Ian Winter KC, who pressed on inconsistencies and on why none reported at the time. Brand faces seven charges — three of rape, three of sexual assault, one of indecent assault — involving six women between 1999 and 2009. He has pleaded not guilty and denies all of the allegations. Also: jurors in Boston heard years of text messages between Sandra Birchmore and Matthew Farwell, including one in which she told him they were going to be parents. And Florida executed William Reaves, 77, for the 1986 murder of Deputy Richard Raczkowski, 29 — the state’s 18th execution this year. Garret Fisher reports. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

Sandra Birchmore was 23, roughly eight to ten weeks pregnant, and found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment in February 2021, hanging from a duffel bag strap. The state medical examiner ruled it a suicide. Testimony began Oct. 13 in the federal trial of former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell, 38, charged with killing a witness — prosecutors allege he began sexually abusing Birchmore when she was 15 and he was 27, through a police Explorers program, and strangled her when she became pregnant and he feared exposure. He faces a mandatory life sentence if convicted and has pleaded not guilty. Defense attorney Kimberley Stevens told jurors Farwell made “regrettable mistakes” but did not kill her, pointing to the original ruling, the absence of his DNA under Birchmore’s fingernails, and FBI meeting notes showing federal examiners initially saw no evidence contradicting the suicide finding. DNA later excluded Farwell as the baby’s father. Also: Alex Murdaugh’s retrial is set for April 5, 2027, in Sumter County, with Judge Debra McCaslin allowing DNA testing but rejecting a defense request she called a fishing expedition. And Naresh Bhatt is on trial in Virginia in the death of his wife, Mamta Kafle Bhatt, whose body has never been found. Garret Fisher reports. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

A New Mexico judge threw out the indictment against actor and director Timothy Busfield on Friday, finding the prosecution failed to act in a fair and impartial manner before the grand jury. Judge Joseph Montano ruled that grand jurors asked three times to hear from additional witnesses — who were waiting in the hallway — and that the prosecutor used an unexplained procedure and an incomplete explanation of the subpoena rules, with the practical effect of unilaterally withholding them. Only two witnesses appeared before that grand jury: Busfield and an Albuquerque police detective. Busfield, indicted in February on four counts of criminal sexual contact with a child in connection with allegations made on the Albuquerque set of The Cleaning Lady, has denied the allegations throughout; prosecutors say they have not decided whether to seek a new indictment, and the ruling expressly allows them to. Also: the first two complainants in Russell Brand’s trial were cross-examined at Southwark Crown Court; he denies all seven charges. And a judge declared a mistrial in the David Prevatte case in Pender County, North Carolina, after finding jurors discussed information never presented in court. Garret Fisher reports. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 63, was sentenced Tuesday in Las Vegas to 40 years to life for the Sept. 7, 1996, murder of Tupac Shakur, who was 25. Clark County District Judge Carli Kierny told Davis that saying he had changed fell short, and that he does not get to take a man from his family — especially when that man is Tupac Shakur. Davis, a former Southside Compton Crips leader convicted Aug. 31 of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon, was never accused of firing the shots; prosecutors have never named the gunman, and much of the case rested on Davis's own public accounts and his memoir. He received 731 days of credit and plans to appeal. Also: a Miami jury found Tyreek Hill, 32, liable on two of ten counts of battery brought by his estranged wife, Lakeeta "Keeta" Vaccaro, 30, awarding $500,000 in compensatory damages and no punitive damages; he has never been criminally charged. And in London, prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones KC opened the Crown's case against Russell Brand, who denies all seven charges. Garret Fisher reports. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

Colleen Slemmer was nineteen. She grew up in Orange Park, Florida, went shrimping before dawn with her stepfather, gave up her lunch break to feed classmates who needed help, and loved computers enough that her grandfather told her to make a career of it. That's what brought her to a Job Corps center in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1995. She never came home. On January 12, 1995, Christa Gail Pike, 18, and two other students lured Colleen to a secluded spot near the University of Tennessee's agricultural campus and killed her. Pike was sentenced to death in March 1996, becoming the youngest woman sentenced to death in the United States in the modern era. She has never claimed she didn't do it. What her jury never heard, her lawyers say, was a childhood of repeated rape and sexual abuse beginning when she was two, untreated bipolar disorder and PTSD, and a system of adults who were told and did nothing. What followed was nearly three decades in de facto solitary confinement, a second conviction for attacking another inmate, a 226-page clemency petition, a governor's refusal, a stay an hour before the needle, a Supreme Court order reversing it, two full doses of pentobarbital, and a woman who did not die. Garret Fisher tells the whole story, start to finish: the victim, the crime, the childhood, the thirty years, the two hours in the chamber, the hospital bed where her lawyers were told she was brain dead, and the question Tennessee now has to answer is whether a state that has already tried once is allowed to try again. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

Actress Selma Blair, 54, pleaded not guilty Monday in Queens Criminal Court to two counts of second-degree assault under New York Penal Law 120.05(3), after an incident on Delta Flight 938 from Los Angeles to JFK on Sunday night. According to charging documents, a Port Authority officer securing Blair to a stretcher said she freed a leg and kicked her repeatedly, and a nurse at Jamaica Hospital said Blair kicked her in the chest — the state charges concern what happened after the flight, not during it. Law enforcement sources told CBS and CNN that Blair tried to open a cabin door and that two flight attendants were injured; the FBI has issued a notice charging her in connection with the flight itself, which falls under federal jurisdiction. Her attorney Shawn Barnes told the court the conduct was not intentional, citing missed doses of a medication controlling severe neurological symptoms and a head injury during the flight. Bail was set at $20,000 cash or $60,000 bond; her next court date is Jan. 19, 2027. Also: Tyreek Hill testified in the Miami civil trial that he is ashamed of how he spoke to his estranged wife while denying he ever physically hurt her. And a jury of 13 was sworn in for Russell Brand's trial in London; he denies all seven charges. Garret Fisher reports. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle has set the execution of Nidal Hasan, 56, for Dec. 3 at 1 p.m. at Fort Hood, Texas — the same post where he killed 13 people and wounded 32 in November 2009, and close to the hour the shooting began. It would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961 and the Army's first firing squad since 1945. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said this week the public will be able to watch, and the Pentagon confirmed Thursday it will be livestreamed, without saying where it would be hosted or what viewers would see. The plan has drawn bipartisan objection, and Army Regulation 190-55, which governs military executions and bars anyone under 18 from attending, does not address livestreaming. Presidential approval does not guarantee an execution: Ronald Gray's was approved in 2008 and halted in federal court. Also: Russell Brand's trial opened at Southwark Crown Court with jury selection; he denies all seven charges. And Christa Gail Pike has been discharged from hospital and returned to the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, ten days after Tennessee's failed execution. Garret Fisher reports. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

Bryan Kohberger, 31, who pleaded guilty in July 2025 to murdering University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin and is serving four consecutive life sentences, now says he was convinced to falsely confess and that his court-appointed lawyers failed him. On Oct. 15 at 1:30 p.m., Judge Steven Hippler will hear a motion asking him to disqualify himself from the post-conviction case, filed Aug. 27 by Kohberger's new court-appointed attorney Greg Rauch, which argues Hippler's sentencing remarks — calling Kohberger a faceless coward and saying he could find nothing good or intrinsically human about him — show bias. Prosecutors answered Oct. 7 that harsh sentencing remarks are not bias and that the motion must show the judge is biased; they have separately asked the court to dismiss the petition without an evidentiary hearing. An amended petition is due Nov. 13, four years to the day after the killings. Also: Russell Brand's trial opens at Southwark Crown Court; he denies all seven charges. And a Clarksville, Tennessee, jury convicted former paramedic Matthew Konen of first-degree murder in the death of David Rodgers and of criminally negligent homicide in the death of his wife, Rachel Konen. Garret Fisher reports. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

Christa Gail Pike's attorneys believed she was brain dead Monday night and expected her to be taken off life support Tuesday. Instead, attorney Randy Spivey said, she woke up and began talking — "to the shock of everyone," including her medical team. She has pneumonia, a blood clot, and no function in either arm, remains handcuffed and shackled, and her lawyers say there could be permanent damage. On Wednesday, Davidson County Chancellor I'Ashea Myles ordered Tennessee to preserve all evidence from the Sept. 30 failed execution — IV lines, needles, drugs, records, 911 calls, log books, communications and anything concerning deviations from protocol — declining to rely on an existing federal order. Asked whether the execution would be rescheduled, the state's attorney said he was not in a position to answer. Also: Lakeeta "Keeta" Vaccaro testified for more than three hours in her civil assault and battery trial against Tyreek Hill in Miami; he denies all of it and has not been charged. And a Tennessee jury is weighing whether former paramedic Matthew Konen killed his wife Rachel Konen and her father David Rodgers. Garret Fisher reports. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed Attorney General Letitia James special prosecutor on Oct. 1 in the Cornell University case, saying she had lost faith in Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten's handling of it. A former student identified in court papers as Jane Doe has filed a civil suit against seven then-members of Chi Phi, the university, the national fraternity and others, alleging she was pressured into taking ketamine and assaulted over several hours in October 2024. All seven deny wrongdoing; no one has been charged with a crime. Van Houten, who declined to bring charges in 2024 based on a six-page sworn statement, has said he never received the full transcript of her interview with campus police, and has reopened the case; he says he supports the special prosecutor's appointment. Also: Christa Gail Pike is conscious and speaking a week after Tennessee's failed execution, her attorneys say, though she remains in critical care and shackled to her bed. And in Pender County, North Carolina, David Prevatte, 27, is on trial in the 2017 death of five-year-old Paitin Fields; he has pleaded not guilty. Garret Fisher reports. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

The Pentagon announced Monday night that President Trump approved Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's recommendation to execute former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, 56, by Army firing squad for the 2009 Fort Hood shooting that killed 13 people and wounded 32. The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place; it would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961 and the Army's first firing squad since 1945. No date has been set, and presidential approval does not guarantee an execution — Ronald Gray's was approved in 2008 and halted in federal court. In Ohio, Judge Jeannine Pratt sentenced Caleb Flynn, 40, to life without parole plus additional time for the February murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn, 37, after he told the court he did not kill her; the judge found no remorse and described deceit, manipulation and cruelty. And in Tennessee, Correction Commissioner Frank Strada has resigned and former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton will lead an independent review as Christa Pike remains critically ill and unconscious a week after the state failed to execute her. Garret Fisher reports. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles granted parole Thursday to Amber Guyger, 38, the former Dallas officer convicted of murdering Botham Jean, 26, in his own apartment in September 2018 — seven years to the day after her conviction, and seven years into a ten-year sentence. The board cited the absence of a documented pattern of violent arrests or convictions, a satisfactory institutional adjustment, and completed programming; no release date has been set, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will determine timing. Jean's family has opposed her release since her first parole review in 2024. In Florida, the First District Court of Appeal overturned the third-degree felony murder and child-unattended convictions of Rhonda Jewell in the 2023 hot-car death of 10-month-old Ariya Paige, holding that both charges required proof she knowingly left the child; the case returns for a new trial on the lesser count. And in Kentucky, former Letcher County sheriff Shawn "Mickey" Stines, charged in the 2024 shooting of Judge Kevin Mullins, is seeking to limit a second prosecution mental health examination. Garret Fisher reports. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.