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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Guille said:
I think there are two things to remember here.

The first is he had no malice toward anyone. The second is that he was on the road because others screwed up. His company needs to pay for this and the DMV employee who gave him his license broke the law and needs to pay too.
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Methinks there are two things to remember here. First ... he got out of his truck and saw the smoking brakes, and kept on going ... Second, he had to have a CDL which means there WAS training somewhere along the line meaning ignorance is no excuse.

Guille said:
If you steal a 5 cent candy from the local store should you get your hand chopped off?
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muzzies say YES
 
Truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos was sentenced on Dec. 13 to 110 years in prison for a 2019 fiery crash just outside Denver that killed four people and injured several others – a sentence that the judge in the case said he wouldn't have chosen if he had the discretion.

A spokesman for the Colorado First Judicial District Attorney's Office told ABC News on Tuesday afternoon that the DA's office "filed a motion to start the reconsideration process" of the sentence on Friday afternoon, and Jefferson County District Attorney Alexis King has requested that the court set a new hearing "as soon as practicable."

"As Colorado law required the imposition of the sentence in this case, the law also permits the Court to reconsider its sentence in an exceptional case involving unusual and extenuating circumstances," the motion says.

Mederos, who was 23 years old at the time of the crash, was charged with 42 counts and was found guilty on 27 – the most serious of which was first degree assault.

Prosecutors sought the minimum penalties for each of the charges -- the highest of which is 10 years, but the number of the charges and a law that says that some have to be served consecutively resulted in the lengthy sentence.

Progressive prosecutors aim to change the criminal justice system from the inside
"The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution says punishments can't be cruel and unusual, and as far as Mr. Mederos is concerned, this is a cruel and unusual punishment," Mederos' attorney, James Colgan, told ABC News Tuesday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...-fatal-crash/ar-AAS2lCs?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
 
Looks like his sentence will be reviewed. Hopefully he gets more than 2 years and less than 110.

Trucker’s 110-year sentence in fatal Colorado crash to be reviewed.

“As Colorado law required the imposition of the sentence in this case, the law also permits the Court to reconsider its sentence in an exceptional case involving unusual and extenuating circumstances,” the motion filed by the Colorado First Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
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That would be much more appropriate than asking a governor to overrule the judicial and legislative branches. It has been sad to see some conservatives join the liberals in advocating the executive branch to overstep in this case.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trucker-110-sentence-fatal-colorado-185118662.html
 
Eagle_Eye said:
Progressive prosecutors aim to change the criminal justice system from the inside.
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Any time you start siding with "progressive" (libtarded) prosecutors, you are defacto advocating for soft on crime, criminals are the real victims garbage.

"The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution says punishments can't be cruel and unusual, and as far as Mr. Mederos is concerned, this is a cruel and unusual punishment," Mederos' attorney, James Colgan, told ABC News Tuesday.
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Oh really? The guy who's facing 110 years for causing 4 people to be incinerated is whining that his sentence is cruel and unusual punishment? What a joke. The bastardization of the 8th Amendment has been going on for too long. A lengthy prison term for killing 4 people is NOT cruel and unusual punishment. A quick search turned up the examples below of what type of things would constitute cruel and unusual punishment:

In Wilkerson v. Utah, 99 U.S. 130 (1878), the Supreme Court commented that drawing and quartering, public dissection, burning alive, or disembowelment constituted cruel and unusual punishment. Relying on Eighth Amendment case law Justice William O.
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Sirdoesn'tthinksalot said:
Any time you start siding with "progressive" (libtarded) prosecutors, you are defacto advocating for soft on crime, criminals are the real victims garbage.



Oh really? The guy who's facing 110 years for causing 4 people to be incinerated is whining that his sentence is cruel and unusual punishment? What a joke. The bastardization of the 8th Amendment has been going on for too long. A lengthy prison term for killing 4 people is NOT cruel and unusual punishment. A quick search turned up the examples below of what type of things would constitute cruel and unusual punishment:
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Sorry doesn'tthinkalot You are arguing with the article not me get your shit together! BTW 110 years is cruel and unusual punishment for this case. Even serial killers aren't treated this badly.
 
Bird_Brain said:
Sorry doesn'tthinkalot You are arguing with the article not me get your shit together! BTW 110 years is cruel and unusual punishment for this case. Even serial killers aren't treated this badly.
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Looks like the prosecutor is going to ask for a reduced sentence, no executive branch overriding the judicial required. He's going to recommend 20-30 years which seems a hell of a lot more appropriate than the 2 years you wanted for killing 4 people.

Wouldn't you agree, brain-like-bird?

The district attorney's office that prosecuted a trucker who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for an explosive crash that killed four people in suburban Denver will request a reduced term of 20 to 30 years.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rogel-...us&utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral#app
 
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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The sentence is too long, but he is guilty.
 
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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"As the jury found, Mr. Aguilera-Mederos knowingly made multiple active choices that resulted in the death of four people, serious injuries to others, and mass destruction," King said, in a statement. "This sentencing range reflects an appropriate outcome for that conduct, which was not an accident."

https://www.cpr.org/2021/12/22/rogel-aguilera-mederos-new-hearing-on-110-year-sentence/
 
NiftyNiblick said:
The judge who imposed the sentence should be lethally injected.
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Learn to read dipshit. It's right in the OP's link.

"During sentencing, the judge acknowledged that Aguilera-Mederos didn't intend to harm anyone. But under guidelines set by the law, his sentence could be no less than 110 years."
 
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