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Nunn Fails to Appear for Bail Review : Jurisprudence: Judge gives former middleweight boxing champion charged with beating former fiancee two-day reprieve.

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Former middleweight boxing champion Michael Nunn, charged with punching and kicking his former fiancee last year in his Agoura Hills home and accused of attacking her a second time in December, failed to appear Wednesday at a bail-review hearing in Calabasas Municipal Court.

Court Commissioner Terry Adamson said that she would delay until Friday a decision to increase the amount of Nunn’s bail from $15,000 to the $50,000 now being sought by prosecutors based on allegations that he beat his former fiancee, Loretha Boyce, on Dec. 14.

That alleged attack, according to Deputy Dist. Atty. Loni Peterson, violated the conditions of Nunn’s bail.

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“He was ordered by the court not to contact, molest or in any way harass the victim again,” Peterson said. “But he did. It was a physical attack.”

Boyce, 28, who attended Wednesday’s brief session, said that on Dec. 14 Nunn confronted her at a friend’s house in Los Angeles, punched her in the face and tore an earring from her pierced ear. A police report on the incident was filed with the district attorney’s office.

In August, Nunn allegedly punched and kicked Boyce during an argument at his home. Boyce required emergency medical care, according to Peterson, for an injured eye, severe bruises on her arms and bruises on her legs.

Nunn’s attorney, Donald Randolph, told Adamson that Nunn was staying at his mother’s house in Davenport, Iowa, and was unable to get to Los Angeles for the scheduled hearing.

Nunn, 28, was the International Boxing Federation champion until last year when he was knocked out by James Toney in a fight in Davenport.

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