Myles Stout reads a prepared statement in this file photo.The attorney for Myles Stout, sentenced to two years in prison and 12 years probation Monday for the shooting death of an 18-year-old friend, told the judge he wants a new trial and likely will appeal his client’s sentencing.
On Monday, Hank Hill told Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Barry Steelman at the end of a three-hour hearing that he plans to file the request. While he does, Stout will remain free on bond and has 30 days to file his notice to seek a new trial.
On March 9, 2011, at a get-together at a friend’s house, Stout, now 22, stuck a pistol in the chest of Myles Compton and pulled the trigger, killing him. Stout later said he thought the pistol was empty.
“I can’t imagine taking any weapon, firearm and shoving it into another person’s body,” Steelman told Stout in Monday’s hearing. “I certainly can’t imagine doing that and then pulling the trigger.”
The judge said there were “disturbing things” about Stout’s case that made it different from other accidental shooting cases he’d overseen.