Boxer Nunn’s Trial Delayed Again After Prosecutor Links Charges
The trial of former world middleweight boxing champion Michael Nunn, set to begin today, has been postponed for the fifth time as charges stemming from two alleged attacks on his former fiancee were consolidated into one case, the prosecutor said.
Nunn is charged with one count of inflicting corporal punishment on the woman, Loretha Boyce, at his Agoura Hills home last August. He also is charged with one count of battery in that alleged attack.
Nunn, 29, is charged with a second count of inflicting corporal punishment on Boyce, 26, in what police said was another attack on the woman, last Dec. 14 in Los Angeles.
The cases were handled separately until Wednesday, but the Los Angeles city attorney’s office and the county district attorney’s office decided to combine all three charges into one case. A new trial date will be set today in Malibu Municipal Court, according to Deputy Dist. Atty. Carrie DeSantis. The original trial date was March 13.
If convicted on all charges, Nunn faces as many as 18 months in jail.
Nunn was the International Boxing Federation world champion for one year before being knocked out by James Toney in 1991.
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