Actually(!), the "punk murderer" was Ryan Jett. It was his stabbing that killed the victim. Nuñez was just involved in the altercation and had plead to manslaughter yet got the same sentence as murderer Jett.
Facts can be stubborn things. To be honest, I have a hard time believing 16 years is all Jett got. That's a pitiful sentence.
“On the way back, Murray testified, Nunez told him he had stabbed someone in the shoulder and that Jett stabbed someone, too. Santos bled to death, another young man was stabbed in the back and stomach, a third was stabbed in the shoulder and a fourth was punched in the eye.
The following day, Murray testified that he watched Nunez and Jett attempt to burn a bloody shirt down by the Sacramento River. Garcia was also there at the time.” LA Weekly Sept. 18, 2009
I know the “facts” may get in the way out in Cali were there is absolutely no law and order, but here in PA the above described acts of Nunez places him squarely identified as a murderer.
He acted to commit a felony crime with an accomplice and made attempts to cover it up and did not notify the authorities. It does not matter a wit which of the youts knife blade was fatal, they all are responsible. If you rob a bank with a partner and your partner kills the teller, you are up for murder one with the partner.
Nunez stabbed another guy in the stomach, a felony. He was involved in a knife fight where someone was killed. That’s first degree murder plain and simple.