Truck Driver Gets 110 Years After His Brakes Fail

[WonderingYid]

I know murderers who got less...

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/20/1065846020/colorado-truck-driver-petition-110-year-prison-sentence

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/us/colorado-truck-driver-prison-sentence.html

Can someone link the petition?

[WonderingYid]

I believe this is it.

https://www.change.org/p/jared-polis-grant-clemency-or-give-commutation-with-time-served-to-rogel-lazaro-aguilera-mederos?source_location=petitions_browse

[YitzyS]

Saw this story a few days ago.

I feel like there should be some recourse (maybe an accelerated pardon application) for people who are sentenced by judges who say "I feel like this is too much but I'm tied by mandatory minimums."

[Euclid]

Poor guy can't catch a brake

[yelped]

Poor guy can't catch a brake

Inspired by the typo in the thread title?

[Euclid]

Inspired by the typo in the thread title?

Mhm










/s

[AsherO]

Poor guy can't catch a brake

You too, you’re unstoppable!

[Yehuda57]

Saw this story a few days ago.

I feel like there should be some recourse (maybe an accelerated pardon application) for people who are sentenced by judges who say "I feel like this is too much but I'm tied by mandatory minimums."

There is some sort of procedural thing I didn't understand, and it seems likely he will be resentenced on the 27th

[YitzyS]

I'm just waiting to see which Lakewood, New Jersey news site will post it first thinking that the story took place here (instead of Lakewood, Colorado).

[aygart]

I'm just waiting to see which Lakewood, New Jersey news site will post it first thinking that the story took place here (instead of Lakewood, Colorado).

None will be willing to admit they didn't post pictures of the actual accident

[mgarfin]

Good analysis

[WonderingYid]

Good analysis

Filter blocks YouTube.

[yesitsme]

I don't have internet connection, please advise

[YitzyS]

Governor commutes sentence to 5-to-10 years. (Don't know why media is calling it 10 years when in legal terms it's called 5-to-10 if there is parole eligibility after 5.

https://www.change.org/p/jared-polis-grant-clemency-or-give-commutation-with-time-served-to-rogel-lazaro-aguilera-mederos/u/30011256

https://abcnews.go.com/US/truck-drivers-sentence-lowered-10-years-originally-receiving/story?id=82010219

[CountValentine]

Is 5 years justice?
Found guilty:
six counts of vehicular homicide
six counts of first-degree assault
10 counts of attempted first-degree assault
six counts of careless driving
one count of reckless driving

[Yo ssi]

Don't know why media is calling it 10 years when in legal terms it's called 5-to-10 if there is parole eligibility after 5.

Depends which media

Is 5 years justice?
Found guilty:
..

[YitzyS]

Is 5 years justice?
Found guilty:
six counts of vehicular homicide
six counts of first-degree assault
10 counts of attempted first-degree assault
six counts of careless driving
one count of reckless driving

I don't know, but I know 110 years is not, primarily because the judge said that his hands were tied. In almost every case the judge says his hands are tied, the given sentence is not justice.

[Yehuda57]

Is 5 years justice?

Is prison ever justice?

[CountValentine]

Depends which media

His sentence is 10 years. He will most likely be out in 5 or less unless he screws up. That is why I used the most likely time of 5 years.

[CountValentine]

Is prison ever justice?

Before we go 100 pages talking about two different things what is your definition of justice?

ETA: To answer your question in the general sense. Sometimes it is not justice as going straight to the chair would be justice.
I guess that will ruin the belief of some that I am a bleeding-heart liberal.