Posted on 01/02/2011 7:04:19 PM PST by calcowgirl
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, just hours before leaving the governor’s office, shaved nine years off the combined 16-year sentence of Esteban Nunez, the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez.
The younger Nunez was one of three young men charged in a knife fight near San Diego State University in October 2008, in which Luis Dos Santos was stabbed to death. The man who wielded the knife in the fatal attack, Ryan Jett, entered a plea agreement with prosecutors and was sentenced to state prison.
Esteban Nunez wielded a knife that injured another participant in the fight. He pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter with the use of a knife, and assault with a deadly weapon.
“I do not discount the gravity of the offense. But given (Esteban) Nunez’s limited role in Santos’s death, and considering that, unlike Jett, Nunez had no criminal record prior to this offense, I believe Nunez’s sentence is excessive. Accordingly, I commute Nunez’s sentence to the lower term for the crimes for which he was convicted: seven years in state prison,” the governor wrote on Sunday in announcing the partial commutation.
Read the commutation here:
http://media.sacbee.com/smedia/2011/01/02/16/EstabanNunez.source.prod_affiliate.4.pdf
Nice drafting: “Nunez wielded THE KNIFE THAT,,,” injured another person. The knife did it. By the way, how badly did THE KNIFE hurt the victim? What vermin these people are.
“I do not discount the gravity of the offense. But given (Esteban) Nunez’s limited role in Santos’s death, and considering that, unlike Jett, Nunez had no criminal record prior to this offense, I believe Nunez’s sentence is excessive.”
Ah-huh. And if this particular Nunez had been some guy from El Sereno instead of the son of some powerful state politician, I’m sure Arnie would have been just as eager. /do I even need a sarc tag here?
the last disgraceful act of a disgraceful governor
He may of had a “limited” roll in the murder but he was Front and Center in the subsequent cover up.
Limited or not the fact remains that he participated.
I feel so badly for the family of the murder victim.
They must be livid.
Schwarzenidiot has proven to be an absolute worthless person and rules and well as he acts.
Looks like he’s not done kissing Nunez’s butt.
Those knives are harder to control than teenagers! /s
http://media.sacbee.com/smedia/2011/01/02/16/EstabanNunez.source.prod_affiliate.4.pdf
(snip)
Not surprisingly, there are different versions of the fight. However, the following key facts are
not in dispute: During the fight, Jett stabbed Santos once through the chest, severing his heart.
Robertson and Henderson were also stabbed. According to Nunez’s sentencing brief, Nunez
admitted he stabbed Henderson in the stomach. Scheerer also joined the fight, and Thomas
punched him in the eye.
Jett, Nunez, Garcia, and Thomas left the scene. Thomas drove the group to Sacramento.
Once there, they went to the Sacramento River, burned their clothes, and threw their knives in
the river.
Nunez was 19 years old at the time of the offense, and he had no previous criminal record. He
subsequently pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter with the use of a knife. He also pled guilty to
assaulting Henderson and Robertson with a deadly weapon, and he admitted that he inflicted
great bodily injury on Henderson and Robertson. Nunez was sentenced to an aggregate term
of 16 years in state prison. The court imposed the maximum 11-year sentence for voluntary
manslaughter, plus one year for using a knife. The court also sentenced Nunez to one year for
assaulting Henderson with a deadly weapon, plus one year for inflicting great bodily injury.
Similarly, the court sentenced Nunez to one year for assaulting Robertson with a deadly
weapon, plus one year for inflicting great bodily injury.
Sounds like attempted murder to me.
“Prosecutors alleged that Nuñez and his three friends, after a night of heavy drinking, were angry at being rebuffed when they tried to crash a fraternity party near campus. Jett and Nuñez were charged with murder, assault and conspiracy to destroy evidence.”
“Before the slaying, the two had been living in Sacramento and had come to San Diego for a weekend of partying.”
“Prosecutors say Esteban Nunez stabbed two of Santos’ friends. He and the others fled, and later tried to cover up the evidence by dumping their knives in a Sacramento river and burning their bloodied clothes with gasoline.”
“Esteban Nunez did not stab Dos Santos but agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter to avoid the possibility of getting a life term if the case went to trial, the lawyer said. He acknowledged being armed with a knife during the fight.
“Luis Santos may not be the son of any top-notch political figure,” said his friend, Navid Sabahi, giving an impassioned plea to the judge for maximum sentences for all the defendants. “He may not be associated with the rich and famous but Luis was the son of two loving and caring parents. To me they are rich and famous ... and Luis was a star in our eyes. We will never get to see his face again...”
“It was a very, very difficult decision for the family to work through this, (the plea agreement)” Patton said. “We very much wanted to go to trial to get the real truth of the case out but it’s a tragic situation all the way around and Esteban is ready to take responsibility for his role in the event.”
Knife fights suck.
They rarely end well, and there is usually much pain.
That is why Sam Colt invented the pistol.
Some of us knew that Arnold was a loser from the very start. Others, the Hugh Hewitt crowd comes to mind, brayed that Tom McClintock “couldn’t win” and insisted that everyone had to back Schwarzenegger. Keep that in mind the next time you see Hewitt and his Salem Radio pals pushing another squishy “center-right” phony in the next election.
I do not desire to have a thousand gunnutters run up my but and out the other end about a simple misstatement.
Should read “That is why Sam Colt perfected the pistol to practical application.”
California Republicans need to be kicked out of the party.
Horse manure. Jett committed first degree murder, even by California code. That he reached a plea agreement is germane to the Schwarzenegger's lame excuse.
I'm no fan of determinate sentencing but this is a case of the cart pulling the horse. Had not Fabian Nunez been involved, Jett would be in San Quinton and the younger would deservedly be in general population at Corcoran. Jett certainly owes Nunez a debt of gratitude.
A classic case of corruption and malfeasance in high public office. Will no one rid me of this Austrian menace?
We will probably hear about this thug again. CA is a banana republic..where the son of a bitch and a politico can get away with murder and probably do it again.
If Arnold is still alive when this little bastard kills again..the blood will be on his hands.
Pistols were around long before Samuel Colt.
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