Schwarzenegger Shows True Colors – Cuts Manslaughter Prison Sentence For Crony’s Son (UP-DATED)

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Well, if anyone had any remaining doubts about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s political leanings, you can rest easy. He’s commuted the prison sentence of the son of a leftist political crony, former Democrat California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. Nunez’s son, Esteban Nunez, was convicted in the October 2008 death of a San Diego State University student.

According to the Los Angeles Times’ story, Esteban Nunez and three friends, all of whom were intoxicated, attacked the victim Luis Santos after they were refused entry to a fraternity party. Nunez’s friend, Ryan Jett, was convicted of stabbing Santos in the heart, killing him during the assault. Schwarzenegger cut Nunez’s prison sentence from sixteen years to seven.

Here’s the link to the L.A. Times’s story:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arnold-pardons-20110103,0,5382022.story

“Reporting from Sacramento and San Diego — On his final night in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reduced the prison sentence of the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez, Esteban Nuñez, who had pleaded guilty to participating in the killing of a college student…”

“…Schwarzenegger announced the moves in a batch of eleventh-hour press releases e-mailed to reporters.

Esteban Nuñez, now 21, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in the stabbing death of Luis Santos. Schwarzenegger cut the prison term to seven years, noting in a statement that Nuñez, although involved in the fight that ended in Santos’ death, did not inflict the fatal knife wound. Schwarzenegger cited a finding by the court that it was Esteban Nuñez’s friend Ryan Jett who stabbed Santos, “severing his heart.”…”

Interesting. Nunez’s participation in the assault, which culminated in Santos’ death, makes him an accessory. Santos is no less dead because Nunez did not wield the knife.

“…Schwarzenegger’s action — one of 10 commutations issued by Schwarzenegger during his tenure — infuriated the victim’s family.

“We are totally outraged,” said Fred Santos, father of Luis Santos. “For the governor to wait until the last day in hopes it would fly under the radar is an absolute injustice.”…”

Who ever said that Arnold Schwarzenegger is a just man?

“…A spokesman for Schwarzenegger said late Sunday that the governor’s office would have no further comment…”

I’ll bet there’s no further comment.

“…Fabian Nuñez, a Democrat who is no longer in the Legislature, grew close to the governor while he was speaker. The two worked together to pass the state’s landmark global warming law, a signature achievement of Schwarzenegger’s tenure…”

I grew skeptical of Arnold when he married into the Kennedy family. And I cannot help recalling his RNC speech in support of George W. Bush at the 2004 convention. My goodness, how things have changed in six short years. How different was Bush’s second term from the first.

Bush and Schwarzenegger became examples of why the American electorate could no longer tell the difference between Republicans and Democrats – bigger government, bigger spending, an open border, uncontrolled illegal immigration, an endless limited war with no victory in sight, the TARP bailout, leftist Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s big con, California’s descent into bankruptcy as Arnold’s true colors revealed themselves bit by bit, the global warming fraud buy-in – all of it.

Is it any wonder that John and Jane Q. public have just had it with political parties?

Good-bye, Arnold – and good riddance. You set the table for Jerry Brown as surely as George W. Bush set it for Barack Obama.

UP-DATE: Thanks to a reader over at FreeRepublic, here’s a link to the PDF commutation document, which indicates that Nunez actually stabbed a separate adversary, named Henderson, in the stomach during the assault – his “clean” criminal history notwithstanding:

http://dl5.activatedirect.com/fs/distribution:letterFile/yvcee9xanplikz_files/ze4psafdtr1gp7?&_c=d|yvcee9xanplikz|ze4xgysc0znhxz&_ce=1294013297.93ab08f59a655b6380f8b56e1739027e

About John L. Work

John Lloyd Work has taken the detective thriller genre and woven an occasional political thread throughout his books, morphing what was once considered an arena reserved for pure fiction into believable, terrifying, futuristic, true-to-life “faction”. He traveled the uniformed patrolman’s path, answering brutal domestic violence calls, high speed chases, homicides, suicides, armed robberies, breaking up bar fights, and the accompanying sporadic unpredictable moments of terror - which eventually come to all police officers, sometimes when least expected. He gradually absorbed the hard fact that the greatest danger a cop faces comes in the form of day-to-day encounters with emotionally disturbed, highly intoxicated people. Those experiences can wear a cop down, grinding on his own emotions and psyche. Prolonged exposure to the worst of people and people at their worst can soon make him believe that the world is a sewer. That police officer’s reality is a common thread throughout Work’s crime fiction books. Following his graduation from high school, Work studied music and became a professional performer, conductor and teacher. Life made a sudden, unexpected turn when, one afternoon in 1976, his cousin, who eventually became the Chief of the Ontario, California, Police Department, talked him into riding along during a patrol shift. The musician was hooked into becoming a police officer. After working for two years as a reserve officer in Southern California and in Boulder, Colorado, he joined the Longmont, Colorado Police Department. Work served there for seven years, investigating crimes as a patrolman, detective and patrol sergeant. In 1989 he joined the Adams County, Colorado Sheriff’s Office, where he soon learned that locking a criminal up inside a jail or prison does not put him out of business. As a sheriff’s detective he investigated hundreds of crimes, including eleven contract murder conspiracies which originated “inside the walls”. While serving on the Adams County North Metro Gang Task Force and as a member of the Colorado Security Threat Intelligence Network Group (STING), Work designed a seminar on how a criminal’s mind formulates his victim selection strategy. Over a period of six years he taught that class in sheriff’s academies and colleges throughout Colorado. He saw the world of crime both inside the walls and out on the streets. His final experiences in the criminal law field were with the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office, where for nearly two years he investigated felonies from the defense side of the Courtroom. Twenty-two years of observing human nature at its worst, combined with watching some profound changes in America’s culture and political institutions, provided plenty of material for his first three books. A self-published author, he just finished writing his tenth thriller.

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1 Response to Schwarzenegger Shows True Colors – Cuts Manslaughter Prison Sentence For Crony’s Son (UP-DATED)

ML Rossetto says:

January 6, 2011 at 2:09 pm

Arnold and Nunez Sr. further victimized Luis’ families and friends. Political worms. I’m sickened! Please write a screenplay about the truth of this terrible situation before Arnold gets his Hollywood cronies to write one filled with lies and then gets cast as himself… Oh….what an unending nightmare.