EKB News

{Kentucky}...Lexington police say they will not publicly release the investigative file in the murder case against Steve Nunn until after Nunn has completed his life sentence in prison. Nunn pleaded guilty on June 28th to fatally shooting his ex-fiancée, 29 year old Amanda Ross. Police records custodian officer Aaron Kidd cited the 1992 Kentucky Supreme Court case Skaggs vs. Redford as reason for withholding the file. Jon Fleischaker, a noted First Amendment lawyer in Louisville who works on cases for the Kentucky Press Association, said waiting until a life sentence is served means "effectively they're never going to be open, that you have an indeterminate life to wait." He called the police department's refusal to release the records "ridiculous."