SAN DIEGO -- The son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of a San Diego college student.
Esteban Nunez and co-defendant Ryan Jett were given the maximum sentence for voluntary manslaughter Friday.
Nunez sat mostly straight-faced before the sentencing showing very little, if any, emotion.
Jett cried through almost the entire morning session.
Prosecutors say the 21-year-old Esteban Nunez, Jett and two other men were angry because they were refused entry to a party and attacked Luis Santos, stabbing him in the chest, near San Diego State University on Oct. 4, 2008.
A witness told police how furious Esteban Nunez and his friends were about getting kicked out of a fraternity party and how they vowed revenge.
Another said Nunez declared that he "got one of them" as they left a group of men, including one who said he had just been stabbed.
Jett and Nuñez pleaded guilty in May to voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon.
They also admitted using a knife in the incident and causing great bodily injury.
The men and two co-defendants, Rafael Garcia and Leshanor Thomas, were originally charged with murder and assault.
Garcia, 20, and Thomas, 21, pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
Garcia, who was cooperating with prosecutors, admitted taking part in a conspiracy to destroy evidence, and Thomas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit an assault and assault with a deadly weapon.
Esteban Nunez was arrested the same year his father ended his Assembly tenure as the longest-serving speaker in California's era of legislative term limits.
The defense argued the men acted in self-defense.
Esteban Nunez and co-defendant Ryan Jett were given the maximum sentence for voluntary manslaughter Friday.
Nunez sat mostly straight-faced before the sentencing showing very little, if any, emotion.
Jett cried through almost the entire morning session.
Prosecutors say the 21-year-old Esteban Nunez, Jett and two other men were angry because they were refused entry to a party and attacked Luis Santos, stabbing him in the chest, near San Diego State University on Oct. 4, 2008.
A witness told police how furious Esteban Nunez and his friends were about getting kicked out of a fraternity party and how they vowed revenge.
Another said Nunez declared that he "got one of them" as they left a group of men, including one who said he had just been stabbed.
Jett and Nuñez pleaded guilty in May to voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon.
They also admitted using a knife in the incident and causing great bodily injury.
The men and two co-defendants, Rafael Garcia and Leshanor Thomas, were originally charged with murder and assault.
Garcia, 20, and Thomas, 21, pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
Garcia, who was cooperating with prosecutors, admitted taking part in a conspiracy to destroy evidence, and Thomas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit an assault and assault with a deadly weapon.
Esteban Nunez was arrested the same year his father ended his Assembly tenure as the longest-serving speaker in California's era of legislative term limits.
The defense argued the men acted in self-defense.
