{Kentucky}...Monday, Fayette County District Judge Joe Bouvier dismissed the fourth-degree assault charge against former lawmaker Steve Nunn, who is serving life in prison without parole in the death of his former fiancee, Amanda Ross. Ross brought the assault complaint against Nunn in February 2009, seven months before she was shot to death on September 11, 2009, in Lexington. Fayette County Attorney Larry Roberts, who sought the dismissal, said, if Nunn had been found guilty, the penalty would not have added to Nunn's sentence because it would have been served concurrently. Roberts said Ross' mother, Diana Ross, did not want the case to go back to court because it would be "just too painful."
