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In another post, Kardashian slammed prosecutor Kayla Wildeman for boasting online about receiving this trophy made out of a brake shoe celebrating Aguilera-Mederos' conviction
Posted on 12/23/2021 10:02:04 AM PST by BenLurkin
The widow of a Colorado man who was killed in a fiery pileup crash caused by a truck driver has hit out at Kim Kardashian for demanding clemency for her husband's killer...
Kardashian, 41, who is training to become a lawyer in California and has been active in the criminal justice reform movement, this week took to social media to call for Rogel Aguilera-Mederos' mandatory minimum sentence of 110 years in prison to be reduced over the April 2019 crash in which his brakes failed and he plowed into stalled traffic, killing four people.
'I don't think that we want our local proceedings in any state taken over by who has the loudest mouth out there, because people don't know all the details, they are running on emotion,' said the mom-of-three widow, referring to Kardashian.
Kathleen, who delivered an emotional testimony during Aguilera-Mederos' trial, says she believes the driver deserves a sentence of 20 years in prison for committing a series of missteps that resulted in the deadly crash.
Aguilera-Mederos, 26, a Cuban immigrant, was transporting timber in the mountainous western state of Colorado in April 2019 when his brakes stopped working on a downhill stretch and he failed to use an emergency exit ramp.
Instead, the truck slammed into stalled traffic, causing a fiery 28-car pileup that killed four people and injured six others.
Aguilera-Mederos was found guilty by a jury on 27 counts including multiple vehicular homicides, and last week a judge handed down the 110-year sentence, which he said was the mandatory minimum under Colorado law, which requires a defendant to serve consecutive, rather than concurrent, sentences.
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In another post, Kardashian slammed prosecutor Kayla Wildeman for boasting online about receiving this trophy made out of a brake shoe celebrating Aguilera-Mederos' conviction
110 years does seem a bit extreme without knowing more than a headline and paragraph from a media that is full of narrative pushing liars. I wasn’t at the trial, nor was I personally impacted by the actions.
What are you soft on crime?
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110 years seems a bit of an excess in this case it was an accident. There is culpability, and I understood they could not prove or disprove the brakes failed. If they did prove the brakes failed, there may be a case against the trucking company. I think a reduction to 20-30 years eligible for parole in 10 or 15 years. He is not a serial killer. His life will forever change either way as he has forever changed the lives of so many people. Clemency in the form of commutation does seem appropriate, if it means reducing the sentence to 20 or 30 years. But can you commute a sentence before a person has begun to serve the time or is the sentence commuted when the Executive determines they have served enough time already? Any lawyers out their?
Yeah I know. This guy was set in a truck on a dangerous route without proper training or the ability to speak English natively. Then when he got into trouble he didn’t know how to handle it and as a result a lot of people were hurt and killed.
Why aren’t they looking at root causes here? They’re just trying to extract vengeance. Meanwhile the christmas parade killer who DELIBERATELY ran over a crowd of old ladies was released on bail? This is upside down.
I remember those emergency ramps from several trips through the Rockies. Could never talk a parent into cruising up one of them. I don’t know why a log truck without brakes wouldn’t use them.
I saw the emergency ramps in upstate NY..
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The truck driver also “skipped”/passed up two runaway truck ramps before the crash. That said a 50 or so year sentence would have probably been more in line. But CO does have the “consecutive” vs. “concurrent” law in place.
Kardashian is going to end up like patch adams’ wife.
Since it was an accident, 5 years for each life sounds right. So 20 years altogether. Good behavior should grant him parole, one year off per life so that would be after 15 years.
That said, the mandatory sentence is excessive.
FYI, I don't know what the offer was, but this guy was offered a plea bargain that he turned down.
I don't know how he thought he could possibly win this trial. His actions were inexcusable, the deaths gruesome and the photos were ghastly. People went from being caught in rush hour traffic to being incinerated.
Who does she think she is, talking back to Kim Kardassian, the great celebrity.
re: ‘110 years seems a bit of an excess in this case it was an accident.”
Did you NOT read this part: “his (1) brakes stopped working on a downhill stretch and (2) he failed to use an emergency exit ramp.”
NOTE number 2, he HAD an opportunity, in fact, he had an OBLIGATION to use emergency exit ramp*. No?
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* So he would not KILL PEOPLE.
Ya Kim, America needs to start taking juridical advice from a genius like you....
re: “Since it was an accident”
OMG, do you ppl not read? He had OPPORTUNITIES to AVOID those needless deaths ...
Yes, I read it. I also read they could not prove it either way. He claimed his brakes failed. The Prosecution could not prove it either way. So the prosecutor argued the point regarding the ramp. The jury accept that argument as I would have. As long as they proved he knew he had no brakes before he approached the ramp. I still feel 110 years was excessive. I would have seen 40 years, eligible for parole in 20 as fair. Did you read the part where a family member felt 20 years was acceptable?
this man is not gonna serve 110 years. Hint: he’s gonna die before his sentence is over.
I have no problem with his sentences being concurrent instead of consecutive. So he ends up serving whatever the longest sentence is.
The crash site is over four miles from Dakota Ridge at the bottom of the Floyd Hill grade. Even without brakes, there was plenty of runway to allow the truck to coast to a stop. I do not believe he made any serious attempt to do that.
In fact, I do not believe the driver's story at all. If he was doing "twice the speed limit" at the bottom of Floyd Hill, he could not have made the turn at Dakota Ridge. He would have tipped the truck and dumped the load right there.
That driver should never get out of jail.
As an FYI, while I feel the 110 years was excessive, if Clemency means Commutation with no prison time, then he needs to start his 110 year sentence and 20 or 30 years from now some Governor can commute his sentence. He deserves jail time and lots of it, just not 110 years.
If Colorado citizens want to change the law they should pressure their legislators. The governor can pardon the felon tomorrow if he wants to face the heat from voters.
I'm not from Colorado so do not know the history of why the sentencing law is so strict. A guess is that in the past there was chronic abuse by judges setting ridiculously lenient sentences.
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