Tuesday, 12 April 2016

After Father Of Killer Calls In Favour From Arnold Schwarzenegger, Killer Walks Free


Story out of Sacramento, California:

The son of a former California state Assembly speaker has been freed from prison after his manslaughter sentence was dramatically reduced in 2011 by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, prison officials said Sunday.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Esteban Nunez, now 27, will live in Sacramento County on parole supervision for three years.

Nunez entered prison in June 2010 to serve a 16-year sentence in the stabbing death of college student Luis Santos in San Diego.

On his last day in office in 2011, Schwarzenegger commuted the sentence to seven years. Nunez is the son of Fabian Nunez, who was speaker of the state Assembly and a political ally while Schwarzenegger was governor.

In 2012, a Sacramento judge called the commutation "repugnant" but legal. In 2015, an appeals court wrote that "back-room dealings were apparent," but upheld Schwarzenegger's power to reduce the sentence. Cont.

Story from - The San Diego Union-Tribune
Image from - alin123b - Deviant Art
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