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Schwarzenegger Reduces Sentence of Son of Former Assembly Speaker

HeadlineJan 04, 2011

Outgoing California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is coming under criticism for reducing the prison term of the son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez. In 2008, Esteban Núñez was sentenced to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon for his role in a 2008 drunken brawl that led to the death of Luis Santos. In his last day in office, Schwarzenegger shortened Esteban Núñez’s sentence to seven years.

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