This petition is too keep the trial for Mike Hogg in Letcher County!!  Hopefully if we get enough signatures they wont transfer this case to a new County. So please Sign and Share this petition!! 

#justiceformike  ( below is what happen that awful morning) 

Kentucky State Police say Patrick Smith, 27, of the Greasy Creek area of Pike County, pinned Michael Shane Hogg to the ground while 34-year-old James Richard Huffman IV, also of Pike County, stabbed Hogg to death during an altercation near a parking lot above the old Whitesburg Post Office on Hayes Street. Micheal Hogg, a Kingscreek native and Letcher County Central High School graduate home on winter break from Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, suffered six stab wounds in the back, one in the chest and one in the neck, officials say. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Whitesburg ARH hospital .

 Now  the guy that pinned Micheal Hogg down on the ground  (Patrick Smith) mother has spoke out to Wymt news  Friday afternoon. She Stated that  "He was trained to do the right thing," . "My son saw things he didn't want to see, he did things he didn't want to do, and when he came home, he has struggled like all veterans of the Iraq war have,"  But not all veterns of the war kill people. Now there asking to have the trail in a different county.. I say NO keep them in Letcher County ! We need justice for Micheal Hogg .