We reported, on Saturday, on the murder of Talina Henderson, allegedly by her husband Stephon Henderson. Today, the Lexington Herald-Leader’s Taylor Six told us more:

‘No imminent threat.’ Lexington woman was killed days after requesting EPO against husband

by Taylor Six | Monday, November 28, 2022 | 1:44 PM EST | Updated: 5:51 PM EST

Judge Traci Brislin, from Kentucky Court of Justice, and is a public record.

Just three days before 47-year-old Talina Henderson was allegedly shot and killed by her husband, she filed for an emergency protection order against him, court records show.

However, family court Judge Traci Brislin said there was “no imminent threat” to Henderson, and no protective order was entered into the court’s file. A hearing was set to take place on Nov. 30, according to online court records.

Henderson filed for the emergency protection order on Nov. 20 and said that her husband, Stephon Henderson, 59, was verbally and emotionally threatening her. She stated in court records that weapons were involved, and thought her husband to be armed and dangerous. Talina Henderson wrote in court records that her husband would “put hands on (her), or have someone else do harm.” . . .

During Henderson’s court arraignment on Monday, the EPO violation charge was dropped because no official order of protection had been filed against him.

How is it that Talina Henderson reported that her husband, a previously convicted felon, was “armed and dangerous” did not result in the police being notified and sent to search his residence and him? Why wouldn’t notifying the court that a convicted felon was probably armed not generate a response?

Some people keep arguing that we need more gun control, but in this instance, when the courts are notified of a potentially violent person, in probable violation of an existing gun control law, shouldn’t that have led to a quick response?

A previously convicted felon in possession of a handgun, is a violation of KRS §527.020 (2)(a), a Class C felony, punishable by a minimum of five and maximum of ten years in the state penitentiary under KRS §532.060, even if he never uses it. Stephon Henderson could have been taken into custody, locked up, and charged with that offence before he (allegedly) killed his wife.

If the information in Miss Six’s story is correct, isn’t Judge Brislin responsible, at least in part, for Mrs Henderson’s murder? She decided, despite being faced with a plea from a distraught and threatened woman, that Mrs Henderson was not facing an “imminent threat” from her husband, that no emergency protection order would be filed.

“Tonight when he was threatening me, he was so close to me that I was afraid of being hit or hurt,” Henderson stated in her Nov. 20 petition. “I called the police and was recommended to file this EPO because as they were talking to him they could hear the anger that he had in his voice.”

Why wouldn’t Judge Brislin, upon seeing that in Mrs Henderson’s petition, not file the EPO? How did the Judge determine that Mrs Henderson was not threatened when she said he was, e3specially when she claimed that the police told her to do so? Instead, she scheduled a hearing on the matter ten days after the petition.

Judge Brislin needs to be held accountable for the consequences of her decisions and her apparent inaction in not having the Lexington Police Department notified that a previously convicted felon was in probable possession of a firearm. Because Judge Brislin did the wrong thing, Talina Henderson is stone-cold graveyard dead.

This is important: lenient judges, lax prosecutors, and inept parole boards around the country have exposed Americans to serious danger, and all need to be held accountable for the consequences of their rotten decisions. If we can start holding them accountable, we’ll soon see maximum prosecutions, maximum sentences, and very few early releases, which will keep criminals off the streets!