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California clemency controversy prompting talk of reform to clemency power

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local article, which is headlined "Nunez sentencing controversy spurs legislation; Proposals would bar governors from 11th-hour sentence reductions," some legislators in California are talking about clemency reforms in response to what has been widely perceived as a clemency injustice by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on his way out of office earlier this month.  Here are the basics: Assemblyman Marty Block says he will introduce legislation in the coming days that would give families of victims and district attorneys a 30-day warning that a prisoner may be set free early by the governor.  The San Diego Democrat?s proposal is in response to former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger?s 11th-hour decision to reduce the prison sentence of Esteban Nuñez to seven years from 16 years in the 2008 stabbing death of Luis Santos at San Diego State University...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 15, 2011 (boomark / email).