Gov Schwarzenegger's Final Address
Posted by Unknown @ 1/02/2011 08:15:00 PM
Sunday, January 02, 2011
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Good riddance!
The Nunez commutation was his final F.U. to the people of
Cali-forn-ya.
RINO!
Sacramento - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday commuted the manslaughter sentence of the son of California's former Assembly speaker and also granted clemency to a woman who killed her former pimp in a motel room when she was 16.
The moves come just hours before Schwarzenegger is scheduled to leave office on Monday.
Schwarzenegger said he believed the 16-year prison sentence that Esteban Nunez was serving was "excessive" in reducing his sentence from 16 years to seven years.
Nunez is the son of Fabian Nunez, a Democrat who served as Assembly speaker — one of the most powerful political leadership positions in the state — from 2004 to 2008.
Nunez pleaded guilty in May to voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon for his role in a fight that killed a 22-year-old man near San Diego State University in 2008.
Prosecutors said Nunez and friends went looking for a fight after they were refused entry to a fraternity party. Defense attorney Brad Patton said the men acted in self-defense after getting into a fight with the victim as they left the party.
The governor's commutation documents point out that Nunez received the same sentence as co-defendant Ryan Jett, despite the court acknowledging that Jett was the person who actually stabbed and killed Luis Dos Santos, and that Jett had a significant criminal record while Nunez had none.
"He was not the actual killer. But despite the evidence that Jett was a leader and instigator in the offense, and that he stabbed and killed Santos, the court sentenced Nunez to the same maximum prison sentence as Jett," the governor said in the order.
"Considering Nunez's limited role in the killing and his clean prior criminal record, I believe his sentence is disproportionate in comparison to Jett's."
The governor also granted clemency to Sara Kruzan, who was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for the 1994 shooting death of George Gilbert Howard. Schwarzenegger reduced her sentence to 25 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Prosecutors said Kruzan was no longer working for Howard when she killed him. Her clemency petition cited years of abuse and psychiatric reports saying she suffered from battered women's syndrome.
Sen. Leland Yee, who advocated for Kruzan, said she had turned her life around in prison and could be a role model for abused kids if released. Her case was the centerpiece of Yee's failed bill to allow reduction of life sentences for minors.
Schwarzenegger also issued seven pardons, one conditional pardon and one other commutation late Sunday.
Democrat Jerry Brown is scheduled to be sworn in as governor Monday morning.
If you can be bothered to listen to the egocentric maniac's last address, note that he thanks us at the end. Well Arnold, thank you right back at you - thanks for nothing.
Schwarzenegger a la verga!
The governor made his decision to pardon Nunez based on false information given by one source: the killer's father, Fabian Nunez, Ex-speaker of the House.
Fabian and the governor were best buddies who would do anything for each other, even allow a son to get away with murder.
If the governor had taken the time to attend the preliminary trial, the same trial that I had attended everyday, he would have heard from witnesses that Esteban was the ring leader to the murder, the thinker of the murder, and the one who organized the cover up the crime.
And after Nunez and Jett murdered Santos, Esteban bragged to others that his father would get him off. And so it has passed.
Now we know crime pays when you have political influence. Why should common citizens try to obey the law when A POWERFUL GOVERNOR and a SPEAKER of the HOUSE VETO JUSTICE and GET AWAY WITH MURDER?
THIS PLAYED OUT JUST AS I KNEW IT WOULD. I LIKE ARNOLD HE'S NOT A COMPLETE WASH. BUT YOU HAVE TO KNOW THE ROAD AND HE DOESN'T. JERRY BROWN DOESN'T EITHER BUT HE'S THE BEST FROM WHAT WAS AVAILABLE. GET READY FOR MORE TAXES, MORE CUTS,AND MORE HANDS ON BY YOU. THE JOY RIDE MAY END FOR ALL OF US.
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