Fresno County (Fresno)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Fresno County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2005; chief deputy district attorney, senior deputy district attorney, deputy district attorney, 1988-2005; associate, Thomas E. Campagne, Attorney at Law, Fresno, 1987-88
Law School: San Joaquin County College of Law, 1987
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Fresno County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2005; chief deputy district attorney, senior deputy district attorney, deputy district attorney, 1988-2005; associate, Thomas E. Campagne, Attorney at Law, Fresno, 1987-88
Law School: San Joaquin County College of Law, 1987
FRESNO — Despite the victim’s family asking for the defendant’s freedom, Judge Houry Sanderson said she’d need more to convince her to agree to anything less than a plea deal of six years in prison.
The defendant, Brian Cappelluti, had been charged with gross vehicular manslaughter,driving drunk and crashing into a traffic light. His passenger was killed. Cappelluti rejected the deal in the hearing before Sanderson, and went to trial in another court, where he was convicted... (continued)
