Kentucky Sheriff Sean "Mickey" Stines will not stick with it, two former prosecutors said.

Stines was accused of shooting and killing Magistrate Kevin Mullins inside a judge's room in a Letcher County Court on September 19, 2024, and captured an attack in a surveillance video.

“In most states, including Kentucky, dementia defense and similar mental health defense capabilities, are very rare because if the person knows right or wrong when committing some crime, then I guess any mental health problem is secondary,” Phil Holloway, a former prosecutor and legal analyst in Georgia,” “If they know right or wrong, they can still be convicted even if they have mental health problems. ”

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Last week, Fox News Digital released videos of Kentucky Police (KSP) investigators and videos of two soldiers asking about paranoids immediately after the shooting.

"I leave the building and won't breathe anymore," Sting told KSP investigator Clayton Stamper.

"You all kill me, don't you?" he asked at one point in the interview. "You'll all kill me, I know you're. Let's get it over. Let's go."

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Holloway said he still knew the killing was wrong even if the sheriff was paranoid.

"If you view the sheriff's video during a discussion with law enforcement after the shooting, the sheriff said he was concerned that police or some other unnamed third party could hurt him or kill him," Holloway said.

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"And he was asking the police, and he even claimed that the police might stop allowing someone else to do something on their way to prison. Now, these things seem paranoid and they seem unreasonable, but at the same time, when he expressed these things to me, it showed that he knew he knew that killing was wrong.

"It's funny because he's telling the police that he's telling the police not to do that. So, in a way, he's going to telecommunications to say he knows right or wrong. And he knows that killing is wrong because he's asking the police not to kill him."

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Michael Wynne, a former Houston prosecutor, agrees with Holloway, especially considering the surveillance footage of Mullins at the moment of the shooting.

"I think it's a rash defense," he said to Fox News numbers. "The video shows him knowing what he's doing is wrong. If you don't know what you're doing is wrong, you won't let everyone else out of the room and you won't keep going, making sure the door is closed. That's everything he has the ability to make cognitive decisions."

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Wynne said he thinks the best Stines will be able to do is to plead guilty to the charges in hopes of taking the death penalty off the table or potentially getting parole.

"Based on the facts, he will lose the case (and) the guilty verdict," Wyenen said. "Now, the jury and the judge should not weigh the facts of the defense case here. But people are the people. And, you know, the judge and the jury will be punished for raising the defense I think is a frivolous defense."

According to Stings' attorney Jeremy Bartley, his defense is closely linked to allegations of sexual abuse that plagued Letcher County authorities, including some in the court.

Three days before the shooting, Steini was removed in a civil sexual assault against his former agent, Ben Shields, who was accused of sexually abused a woman. Stines is also named for failing to supervise fields.

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Bartley declined to comment on the story, but had previously told Fox News Digital, "I think the most important thing is that my client feels putting pressure on him during the deposition, not saying too much, rather than talking about what is happening inside the court, especially in the judge's room."

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Bartley said the threat to the Stings family made paranoia frenzy.

"On the day of this shooting, my client tried to contact his wife and daughter many times and he was convinced they were in danger," Bartley said. "He thought they were in danger because he knew what was going on in the court. And there was pressure and there was threat to keep him consistent so that they didn't say more than these people wanted to say."