Esteban Nunez-killer and son of ex-California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is closing out his disastrous governorship of California with a shameful commutation of a sentence for a convicted killer. What makes it particularly shameful is that the convict in question is none other than the son of ex-California State Assembly Speaker, the corrupt Fabian Nunez.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/01/03/schwarzenegger-commutes-sentence-for-son-of-political-ally-on-last-day/
(Hot Air)
I featured articles on this case when it occurred. Even then, there were indications that the elder Nunez would try and use his influence to get his son off-the-hook.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2008/12/son-of-california-state-assembly.html
Even Los Angeles playboy mayor Tony Villaraigosa wrote a letter to the judge asking him to lower Nunez's bail.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2008/12/la-mayor-writes-letter-on-behalf-of.html
Arnold Schwarzenegger, in addition to being an incompetent governor, has now, on his last day in office, made himself a corrupt governor as well.
I certainly know people serving life sentences in California who are far more deserving of a pardon than this jerk. I was almost swayed by the fact that he didn't inflict the fatal stab... but if the two of them were generally stabbing at several people in a coordinated act, then you are right, both are responsible for any deaths that result.
ReplyDeleteThis is too bad, because it gives the power of commutation a bad reputation. There are a lot of people for whom it is more than appropriate. Clinton's pardon of Dorothy Gaines, for example.