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  • Colorado governor slashes trucker’s prison term to 10 years

    12/31/2021 5:50:41 AM PST · by fluorescence · 63 replies
    Ass. Press via KTAR.com ^ | Dec 30, 2021, 4:45 PM | AP
    DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday shortened the prison sentence of a truck driver convicted in a deadly crash to 10 years, drastically reducing his original 110-year term that drew widespread outrage. The decision on Rogel Aguilera-Mederos’ sentence was among several year-end commutations and pardons issued by Polis. The move comes days after a judge scheduled a hearing for next month to reconsider the sentence at the request of the district attorney, who planned to ask that it be reduced to 20 to 30 years. Around 5 million people signed an online petition seeking clemency for Aguilera-Mederos,...
  • Truck driver's sentence reduced from 110 years to 10 by Colorado governor in fatal crash

    12/30/2021 5:44:25 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 57 replies
    nbc ^ | Doha Madani
    Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday commuted the prison term of a truck driver who was sentenced to 110 years after a fatal accident in 2019, reducing the sentence to 10 years. The man, Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, 26, killed four people on April 25, 2019, after, he said, his brakes failed on the downhill grade on Interstate 70 eastbound outside Denver. Prosecutors argued that Aguilera-Mederos acted recklessly and made a series of poor decisions before the wreck