A group of crash survivors and family members of the victims spoke exclusively with GMA, describing the trauma that the crash caused their families.
Kim Kardashian and the nearly 5 million people who signed a petition are calling for Colorado’s governor to reduce Rogel Aguilera-Mederos’ sentence.Protesters rallied on the steps of the Colorado state Capitol on Wednesday, calling on Gov. Jared Polis to
Mederos was charged with 42 counts -- the most serious of which was first-degree assault, a class-three felony, and was found guilty by a Jefferson County jury of 27 counts. "This will not overturn the conviction supported by the evidence in this case; it simply allows the court greater flexibility than at initial sentencing," she wrote.
Mederos, who was not intoxicated at the time, testified that after his brakes failed, he crashed into vehicles that had stopped on the highway due to another accident in Lakewood.Police said that Mederos was driving at least 85 miles an hour before the crash -- a point that his defense attorney disputed in court, on a stretch of the highway where there's a 45 miles per hour speed limit for commercial vehicles, according to The Associated Press.
"This is completely disproportionate to what happened," Colgan said."He may have made some negligent mistakes, but what he did does not deserve a life sentence."District Court Judge Bruce Jones presides over his courtroom at the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse in Denver, Feb. 28, 2020. Harsch said that for people who sustained injuries after the crash,"there was nothing anybody could do to go help."
Mederos was sentenced to 10 years each for six counts of first degree assault, as well as five years each for 10 counts of attempted first degree assault, resulting in the 110-year sentence.
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