The trucker submitted an application for clemency Monday, his defense attorney James Colgan said, and the governor’s office said it would expedite a review of his request.
The second, separate process underway is the request that Polis commute part or all of Aguilera-Mederos’s sentence. Under state law, any sentence reduction obtained through that process can’t take effect until 119 days after a defendant enters prison. “We understand and appreciate the frustration of those seeking immediate consideration and ask for patience as we take the steps allowed by law before the judge who knows this case and the community that was impacted,” King said in a statement Wednesday. Jones, who previously indicated he was open to reducing the sentence, set a hearing Monday to discuss the prosecution’s request. She asked for a court hearing in which District Court Judge Bruce Jones can reconsider Aguilera-Mederos’s sentence. The first process was requested Friday by First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King, whose office pursued the charges that ensured convictions would lead to Aguilera-Mederos spending decades in prison. Jared Polis to commute Aguilera-Mederos’s sentence, and two separate processes are underway that could end with a sentence reduction. More than 4.6 million people have signed an online petition calling for Gov. Four people died in a fiery crash on Interstate 70 near Colorado Mills Parkway that shut down highway in both directions in Denver on April 25, 2019. “This person should spend some time in prison and think about his actions,” Evans said, adding she and other victims’ relatives object to a “public narrative” that Aguilera-Mederos is a victim. Prosecutors said he was driving recklessly fast hours before the crash, and chose to keep driving in Colorado’s mountains despite knowing the truck had a problem with its brakes. She and others emphasized that Aguilera-Mederos was not using alcohol or drugs at the time of the crash. “I want to see my son, I want to see my son,” Oslaida Mederos, the trucker’s mother, said in Spanish through sobs during Wednesday’s rally. The 110-year sentence drew immediate criticism, and calls for clemency have spread nationwide in the nine days since the sentencing.
Aguilera-Mederos passed by a runaway truck ramp designed to stop out-of-control semis and instead crashed into stopped traffic in Lakewood, killing four people in a fiery 28-car pileup. Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, 26, was sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 110 years in prison after he was convicted of 27 crimes after he lost his brakes while driving a semitrailer on Interstate 70 in Colorado’s high country in 2019. We cannot stop until this system has been changed.” It starts with legislation, it starts with the district attorney’s offices and it starts with our judges. “This type of injustice has to stop,” said Leonard Martinez, an attorney for the trucker’s family.
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About 100 people rallied at the Colorado State Capitol on Wednesday in support of clemency for the truck driver who was sentenced to more than a century in prison last week, with many in the crowd hoping to continue the movement’s mounting momentum.
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