Thread: Schwarzenegger reduces Nunez murder sentence (PROTESTED)

Schwarzenegger reduces sentence in San Diego slaying

By Lily Leung and David Ogul
Sunday, January 2, 2011 at 5:51 p.m.

SAN DIEGO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday commuted the sentence of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez’s son, who was convicted in the slaying of a Mesa College student near San Diego State University in 2008.

Schwarzenegger’s move, one of his last as governor, reduces Esteban Nunez’s sentence from 16 years to seven years in prison. He called the original terms "excessive" in his commutation of sentence, dated Dec. 31. (Read the entire document here.)

The commutation comes two months after a San Diego Superior Court judge in October had rejected Esteban Nunez’s attempts at shortening the sentence.

Esteban Núñez, 21, of Sacramento pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon in the Oct. 4, 2008, stabbing that killed Luis Santos. A co-defendant, Ryan Jett, pleaded guilty to similar charges.

Both were sentenced in June to the maximum term of 16 years.

“I do not discount the gravity of the offense. But given Nunez’s limited role in Santos’s death, and considering that, unlike Jett, Nunez had no criminal record prior to this offense, I believe Nune’s sentence is excessive,â€

political strings pulled to reduce a murder sentence! Disgusting and elitist! That would have never happened for one of us general population American peons!

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Calif. woman who killed pimp granted clemency by Schwarzenegger

SACRAMENTO, Calif. A woman who was 16 when she ambushed and killed her former pimp in a Southern California motel room has been granted clemency by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Sara Kruzan, now 32, was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for the 1994 shooting death of George Gilbert Howard. Prosecutors said Kruzan was no longer working for Howard when she killed him.

Calling her life sentence "excessive," Schwarzenegger on Sunday commuted Kruzan's sentence to 25 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Her clemency petition cited years of abuse and psychiatric reports saying she suffered from battered women's syndrome.

Schwarzenegger leaves office on Monday.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/01/0 ... anted.html

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Fabian Nunez and Schwarzenegger continue to be "the best of friends"... the two were always A VERY GOOD LIBERALIST DEMOCRATIC TEAM!

Esteban Nunez

reduces Esteban Nunez’s sentence from 16 years to seven years in prison.

Why is the 16 printed in numerical and the seven in not numerical but spelled out?

Originally Posted by roundabout

reduces Esteban Nunez’s sentence from 16 years to seven years in prison.

Why is the 16 printed in numerical and the seven in not numerical but spelled out?

Most news papers usually spell out single digit numbers but not larger numbers. I'm not sure why. Headlines can go either way. I don't know why, maybe space in the headline.

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