A former Kentucky lawmaker spending life in prison for the death of his ex-fiancee will get a chance to argue his attorney failed him and he should be allowed to withdraw his plea.
Fayette Circuit Judge Pamela Goodwine has set hearing for Oct. 30 in the case of 61-year-old Stephen Roberts Nunn. Nunn is contesting his 2011 guilty plea to killing Amanda Ross outside of her Lexington home in 2009.
After the shooting, Nunn, the son of former Kentucky Gov. Louie Nunn, bolted from Lexington. Police caught up with him near the graves of his parents in Hart County, where he fired one shot at a state trooper before surrendering.
Nunn spent about 15 years in the state Legislature. His father served as governor from 1967 to 1971.