Sentence of Huttenbacks
Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Zel Canter’s decision (Part I, Sept. 8) to impose not one minute of jail or prison time in the embezzlement case of former UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Robert Huttenback and his wife is an outrage.
The crime involved premeditated conduct; it was not an accident or a crime of passion. It was not an isolated act; Huttenback and his wife committed the same acts of theft repeated over a period of several years. They were educated people who possessed specific knowledge between right and wrong.
Huttenback’s position as a university chancellor is not a mitigating factor; rather it is an aggravating factor because he was supposed to be an example for impressionable college students; instead he and his wife were common thieves.
JEANETTE BOUVIA-APPLEGATE
San Pedro
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