Prosecutor seeks reduced sentence for truck driver who got 110 years for fatal 2019 crash.
Rogel Aguilera Mederos, the truck driver who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for a 2019 fatal crash, may have his sentence reduced.Prosecutors filed a motion earlier this month asking for a reduced sentence for Rogel Aguilera Mederos, the truck driver who wason I-70, outside Denver, that killed four people and injured several others.
Judge A. Bruce Jones, who was the judge in this case, questioned during the hearing whether he has jurisdiction to act based on the DA's motion and said that if Mederos appeals or requests a new sentence through a separate motion, he may no longer have jurisdiction over this case. Mederos' attorney, James Colgan, told ABC News in a phone interview Monday that efforts to reconsider the sentence are"disingenuous."
Police said Mederos was driving at least 85 mph before the crash on a stretch of the highway with a 45 mph speed limit for commercial vehicles. "By the time he realized it was there, he was past it," Colgan said, adding that Mederos was"under a lot of stress" as he attempted to get his truck into gear to attempt to brake.
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