Experts and law enforcement disagree on whether a western Kentucky sheriff should recuse his office from investigating a high-profile rape case with a wealthy, politically connected defendant.
The case involves Daviess County businessman and former University of Kentucky board chairman Billy Joe Miles, who was charged in September with rape, sodomy and bribery of a witness.
Experts said that it would have been best for Daviess County Sheriff Keith Cain to hand the investigation over to state police to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest. The men are friends, that Cain has traveled to Miles’ ranch in Bolivia and that the sheriff appears to be interjecting himself into the case in a way that favors Miles.
Cain said he’s done nothing wrong and is confident that his agency can handle the investigation with integrity.
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