Truck driver sentenced to 110 years for accident.

Should the Colorado governor commute the sentence of truck driver that lost his brake

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In April 2019, the truck Aguilera-Mederos was driving lost its brakes, CBS Denver reported. He passed one of the state's runaway truck ramps as he descended from the mountains, a point the prosecution focused heavily on during the trial.

He then crashed into several cars stopped on eastbound I-70 in Lakewood, sparking a massive fire. The highway was shut down in both directions for roughly 24 hours, according to the station.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rogel-aguilera-mederos-sentenced-colorado-traffic-crash/

Should the governor commute the sentence?
 
Eagle_Eye said:
In April 2019, the truck Aguilera-Mederos was driving lost its brakes, CBS Denver reported. He passed one of the state's runaway truck ramps as he descended from the mountains, a point the prosecution focused heavily on during the trial.

He then crashed into several cars stopped on eastbound I-70 in Lakewood, sparking a massive fire. The highway was shut down in both directions for roughly 24 hours, according to the station.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rogel-aguilera-mederos-sentenced-colorado-traffic-crash/

Should the governor commute the sentence?
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Is there a particular length of time people believe the sentence should be commuted to?
 
There should be no conviction at all for an actual accident that didn't involve gross criminal negligence.
Shit happens, and everybody eventually dies of or from something.

Colorado. There but for the grace of God....
 
Can the governor downgrade it to maybe serve two more years, and that's that?

Mr. Owl was in a jury shortly before we left STL. They convicted a guy of manslaughter and gave him one year in jail (not prison) for killing another guy in an accident caused by road rage and drinking. 110 years seems excessive in this guy's case.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Can the governor downgrade it to maybe serve two more years, and that's that?

Mr. Owl was in a jury shortly before we left STL. They convicted a guy of manslaughter and gave him one year in jail (not prison) for killing another guy in an accident caused by road rage and drinking. 110 years seems excessive in this guy's case.
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The governor has the power to grant clemency or cummute his sentence to time served. I vote time served.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
There should be no conviction at all for an actual accident that didn't involve gross criminal negligence.
Shit happens, and everybody eventually dies of or from something.

Colorado. There but for the grace of God....
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He could have used the runaway truck ramp he passed if he saw it.
 
'“This is the result of the defendant pulling over near Berthoud Pass because his brakes were smoking away, but he chose to get back in that truck and keep driving,” Wildeman told the jury.'
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/10/15/i-70-crash-guilty-rogel-aguilera-mederos/

This guy saw his brakes were smoking, stopped the truck, looked at the brakes and got back in to continue driving...and eventually crashing.

I have driven tractor-trailer trucks.
When you drive one of those things?
You are responsible for the condition it is in.
Do you people think truckers check their trucks before they drive, just for fun?
Whether they own the rig or not?

If you are not sure about the brakes?
You do NOT drive the bloody thing.

We are talking about a vehicle that can weigh 40 times what surrounding vehicles do.
It's like a bull in a china shop.
You cannot just 'assume' everything is 'okay'.

What you people who are calling for letting the guy out after two years are saying - whether you know it or not?
Is that a truck driver is in little/NO WAY responsible for the condition of his/her truck.
That even if he suspects the brakes are faulty (which this guy did)?
It is wrong but no huge deal for him to get back in and keep driving.
Even if he ends up killing people because of that suspected fault.


I would take his license for life and give him 10-15 years for every death he caused.
To be served consecutively (one after the other).
He would be out - with good behavior - in about 13-20 years (if Colorado's parole laws are like most states).

Four people are dead.
And he KNEW his brakes were not working properly.
Yet he still kept driving.
And that decision caused 4 innocent people to die.

And some of you want to give him only 2 years in jail?
Jeez.
 
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Methinks the dead would say ... FOREVER

WHY DOES EVERYONE FORGET THE VICTIMS ... I KNOW ... BECAUSE THEY'RE DEAD AND CAN'T SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.
 
Eagle_Eye said:
In April 2019, the truck Aguilera-Mederos was driving lost its brakes, CBS Denver reported. He passed one of the state's runaway truck ramps as he descended from the mountains, a point the prosecution focused heavily on during the trial.

He then crashed into several cars stopped on eastbound I-70 in Lakewood, sparking a massive fire. The highway was shut down in both directions for roughly 24 hours, according to the station.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rogel-aguilera-mederos-sentenced-colorado-traffic-crash/

Should the governor commute the sentence?
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Yes. This type of case is why I don't like mandatory sentencing laws.
 
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