Esteban Nuñez the 19-year-old son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez is out on $1M bail while the courts run around in circles trying to get this case to go to trial. It didn’t take long after the arrest for Esteban’s MySpace profile to get deleted but we got some great screen shots before that happened.

SAN DIEGO COURTS — The trial date for three young men accused in the fatal stabbing of a college student on the San Diego State University campus last year has been postponed again despite the objections of one of the defendants.

After a full day of hearing motions in the case yesterday, San Diego Superior Court Judge Robert O’Neill pushed the trial for Ryan Jett, Esteban Nuñez and Leshanor Thomas to April 12. It had been set for March 29.

Once again, O’Neill said the change was necessary because of scheduling conflicts among the attorneys.

Jett, the only defendant in the case who remains in County Jail, objected to the delay through his lawyer, Terry Zimmerman.

Zimmerman argued there was no justification to postpone the trial and faulted prosecutors for not producing new evidence, such as a knife owned by a fourth man charged in the case, in a timely fashion.

Prosecutors said they hope to recover the knife next week.

Jett, 23, Nuñez and Thomas, both 20, are charged in the Oct. 4, 2008, fatal stabbing of Luis Santos during a fight on the SDSU campus. Three other people were hurt in the brawl. Nuñez is the son of former state Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez.

Prosecutors contend that the men were angry after getting kicked out of a fraternity party and went looking for a fight. They ran into Santos, 22, who attended Mesa College, and his friends.

Defense lawyers have said their clients acted in self-defense.

- Self defense?!? It was 3 on 1 and they used a knife. It makes me sick!

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