Jerrod Powell News Today

A special judge has been selected for the murder trial of Stanford Shelton, according to the Commonwealth’s Attorney Richie Kemp. Timothy Langford, the chief circuit judge for the First Judicial Circuit in Kentucky, will preside over Shelton’s trial in place of newly-appointed Graves County Circuit Judge Kevin Bishop. Kemp noted it only recently came to the court’s attention that Bishop had represented the murder victim, SaVannah Hancock, in a previous case several years prior. L...