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   From: daily.mexican@gazette.com   
      
   Dozens gathered outside Colorado's Capitol building in protest   
   of the 110-year sentence given to a Houston truck driver found   
   guilty in a 2019 deadly car pile-up.   
      
   "Whether that’s clemency in the form of a partial commutation or   
   some other action, we’re asking that Governor Polis review that   
   case," said Democratic state Sen. Julie Gonzales Wednesday.   
      
   Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, who was 23 at the time of the crash, was   
   sentenced in Colorado last week to 110  years in prison after he   
   was found guilty on 27 counts in the 2019 crash that killed four   
   people and injured others.   
      
   Investigators of the crash said Aguilera-Mederos lost control of   
   the semi-truck after its brakes failed on a highway near Denver.   
   The truck failed to take runaway truck ramps and was going about   
   85 miles per hour before it slammed into dozens of other cars   
   that were stopped on the highway, causing an explosion.   
      
   Prosecutors argued that Aguilera-Mederos could have used several   
   runaway ramps before the crash but instead made a "bunch of bad   
   decisions."   
      
   Comments:   
      
   ReaganRepublicanNowIndependent   
   9 hours ago   
      
   I watched a video of the sentence hearing.  The judge gave the   
   defendant the minimum sentence in each of the charges of which   
   he was convicted.  The problem is the way Colorado law is   
   structured.  In a case when the defendant is found guilty on   
   multiple charges, the sentences cannot be served simultaneously.   
    The sentences MUST BE SERVED consecutively.  Thus, this young   
   man has a 110-year sentence.   The story fails to mention that   
   he was also offered a plea deal, which he refused.  He probably   
   refused the plea deal for it would have permanently revoked his   
   CDL.   
      
   BostonMrk   
   9 hours ago   
      
   A big problem is charge 'stacking', where a single crime results   
   in multiple charges. Then there's the issue of can the sentences   
   be served concurrently or not.   
      
   Meh12345   
   7 hours ago   
      
   I work for the courts... and this is not at all true. It is   
   under specific statues relating to specific crimes, but not   
   simply for having multiple charges on a single case. I WISH what   
   you were saying is true, I have seen individuals sentenced to   
   70+ cumulative years that would serve less than 10.   
   EDIT: Just to clarify, it is the COLORADO courts I work for   
      
   slojoemustgo   
   9 hours ago   
      
   Failing brakes. In all the years I drove I only knew one way for   
   brakes to fail, driving too fast for conditions and overheating   
   the brakes to slow you down. On top of that, if he was going 85   
   he was in the wrong gear for going downhill. He probably   
   deserves a lesser sentence but not much less, it was his fault.   
      
   MarkinTennessee   
   9 hours ago   
      
   I’ve been trucking 26 years. He burned up his brakes due to   
   inexperience resulting in total brake failure. Did he intend to   
   kill anyone? No. Definitely not. Did he cause the deaths of four   
   people from his own inexperience similar issues? Sounds like   
   that would be the case. Semi truck brakes simply do not fail.   
   There are built in safeguards in case of mechanical failure. He   
   just probably had no business behind the wheel of the truck with   
   so little experience.   
      
   BTKidd   
   9 hours ago   
      
   I spent 35 years on the road driving big trucks and you are 100%   
   correct. It is his fault for causing all that death and   
   destruction. After watching the video he shouldn’t have been in   
   a semi truck because he didn’t know how to operate it. No   
   excuse. His company should be held accountable too.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/protest-denver-trucker-110-year-   
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