Schwarzenegger's snore infuriates murdered SDSU student's father
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SAN DIEGO -- The father of a murdered San Diego State University student said he's outraged that former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a snoring noise when asked about his decision to shorten the sentence of his son's killer, whose father is a former Assembly speaker, it was reported today.
Schwarzenegger made a snoring sound on Thursday, when he was asked about his last-minute commutation for Esteban Nunez, the son of former Democratic Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez of Los Angeles, who fatally stabbed Luis Santos outside a San Diego State fraternity party in 2008.
"(Schwarzenegger's) arrogant and insensitive,'' Luis Santos' father, Fred Santos, who lives in the East Bay suburb of Concord, told the Contra Costa Times.
Schwarzenegger was getting an award in Hollywood Thursday when reporter Dave Bryan of CBS2 asked him about the commutation.
The younger Nunez had been serving a 16-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon when the governor reduced his sentence to seven years.
On Thursday, Bryant asked the former governor about the flap.
"Don't ask me the same question, OK, because otherwise you're boring the hell out of me,'' Schwarzenegger replied on camera. When Bryan pressed the question, the governor made a snoring sound.
Schwarzenegger's commutation caught prosecutors and victim's family by surprise. It was one of Schwarzenegger's last acts as governor and was criticized as a political favor to the former Assembly speaker, although Schwarzenegger is a Republican and Nunez is a Democrat.
Schwarzenegger subsequently apologized for not informing the family in advance, but the family angrily spurned the apology and Schwarzenegger has refused comment since.
"To (Schwarzenegger), doing an injustice just to do a political favor to reduce a sentence for a murderer is trivial, like choosing to have orange juice for breakfast,'' Santos told the newspaper. "It shows his true character as a person.''
Santos is suing Schwarzenegger, claiming he violated Marsy's Law, which requires that victims get advance notice -- and a chance to oppose -- the early release of felons who affected them. That lawsuit is pending in Sacramento.
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