Colorado truck driver: 4.4 million sign petition asking for reduced sentence in I-70 crash
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More than 4.4 million people signed an online petition calling for clemency for the truck driver who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for the deadly 2019 crash on Colorado’s I-70 that resulted in four deaths.
"There doesn’t seem to be an intentionality of murder, and he’s getting a sentence that would rival a mass murder," Bryan Kuhn, an attorney, told the website. "I think that is not sitting well, I think a lot of people think there maybe should be a long jail sentence, but this may be just a little too much for some folks."
Rogel Aguilera-Medros, 26, was convicted of vehicular homicide and other charges earlier this month. He testified that he tried to slam on the brakes to stop his semitrailer hauling lumber on April 25, 2019, but said they failed.
Prosecutors focused on his decision not to take any runaway truck ramps while traveling about 85 mph on Interstate 70 west of Denver.
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