Scoville Withdraws As Nunn's Attorney
{Lexington, Kentucky}...Warren Scoville, the London attorney who has represented former state lawmaker Steve Nunn since 2009, has withdrawn as his counsel. Scoville wrote in his motion to withdraw that Nunn is "currently incarcerated and unable to pay his attorney fees." Fayette Circuit Judge James Ishmael approved the motion Friday. Nunn is serving a sentence of life without parole in the September 11, 2009, shooting death of his former fiancée, Amanda Ross. Judge Ishmael rejected a motion for partial summary judgment in a wrongful-death lawsuit against Nunn by Ross' mother, Diana Ross, citing a rule that requires the court to appoint an attorney if a prisoner is unable to defend an action. The judge did not say when he would make the appointment. Diana Ross argues that Nunn's guilty plea establishes his liability. Also Friday, Fayette Circuit Judge Thomas Clark granted a motion to consolidate the 2009 wrongful-death lawsuit with a 2010 lawsuit in which Diana Ross alleges that Opera House Square allowed Nunn to gain access to her daughter after Amanda Ross told them she had an active emergency protective order against him.
