Overview

• A grand jury transcript filed this week recounts a detective’s review of chamber video showing Stines asking others to leave, borrowing Judge Kevin Mullins’ phone, and then firing multiple rounds.
• State Police Det. Clayton Stamper testified that Stines called his daughter from Mullins’ phone moments before the gunfire and that investigators found no evidence of any contact between Mullins and Stines’ family.
• A jail social worker’s report says Stines remained in an “active state of psychosis” days after the shooting and had combative episodes that required pepper spray.
• Defense filings seek to unseal a state mental evaluation and argue Stines feared for his family, citing witness accounts of paranoid behavior in the hours before the shooting.
• Prosecutors requested a change of venue this week, Stines has pleaded not guilty to murder of a public official, remains jailed without bond, and no trial date has been set.