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I said 2 yrs for each injury/death. That doesn't equal 110 years unless he killed/injured 55 people!
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I said 2 yrs for each injury/death. That doesn't equal 110 years unless he killed/injured 55 people!
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.
If you steal a 5 cent candy from the local store should you get your hand chopped off?
Oh, he's definitely to blame. Those ramps are for brake failures. He had a failure and knew it.
The question isn't his guilt or innocence but the length of his sentence.
I addressed that.
Well even the court and DA think it's too harsh, and are trying to fix it.
The question isn't his guilt or innocence but the length of his sentence.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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?
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....
They think he intended to miss the ramp?
Question: How do you know those who want the sentence commuted are Leftists?
Proof?
The judge who imposed the sentence should be lethally injected.