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If the EPO were against Stines, I can’t see where any judge other than Mullins would need to have signed it. These are emergency ex parte proceedings, and there would have been no time to find a judge from another jurisdiction who didn’t know Stines personally who could fill in if Mullins had wanted to recuse himself. Furthermore, any ruling against Stines would suggest that Mullins would not have been acting on bias.
Just for the sake of argument, assuming for a moment that Stines’ wife was fearful of him and produced evidence before Mullins that she was in need of an EPO, that EPO would likely have included an eviction clause, which would explain why Stines was not staying at his home with his family. It might also explain why he reached out to his daughter and aunt but not his wife in the minutes prior to the shooting, as he would not be permitted to contact his wife.
As far as his weapon goes, there could have been a clause that allows him to carry at his place of employment but also precludes him from keeping personal weapons. He likely would have had to surrender those.
Any provisions in an emergency order would be temporary until an actual hearing with both parties present in several days’ time. I’m not certain about KY, but where I live, the hearing must take place within 10 days.
If the order were against Stines, likely service would have been executed by someone within his own office, with a copy stored both in his office and in any municipal police department covering his place of residence.
TLDR: Likely everyone Stines works with would have known the content of an emergency EPO against him.
All speculation and moo and ime.
Just for the sake of argument, assuming for a moment that Stines’ wife was fearful of him and produced evidence before Mullins that she was in need of an EPO, that EPO would likely have included an eviction clause, which would explain why Stines was not staying at his home with his family. It might also explain why he reached out to his daughter and aunt but not his wife in the minutes prior to the shooting, as he would not be permitted to contact his wife.
As far as his weapon goes, there could have been a clause that allows him to carry at his place of employment but also precludes him from keeping personal weapons. He likely would have had to surrender those.
Any provisions in an emergency order would be temporary until an actual hearing with both parties present in several days’ time. I’m not certain about KY, but where I live, the hearing must take place within 10 days.
If the order were against Stines, likely service would have been executed by someone within his own office, with a copy stored both in his office and in any municipal police department covering his place of residence.
TLDR: Likely everyone Stines works with would have known the content of an emergency EPO against him.
All speculation and moo and ime.
