“There are no winners here, judge,” Colgan said.
Colgan said the lighter sentence was more appropriate. “I would say that perhaps the legislature, in imposing a requirement of consecutive sentences, had in mind that there might be cases where a judge should give it further consideration after hearing from the Department of Corrections, and this may very well be one of those cases,” Jones said.Īguilera faced a mandatory minimum of 110 years in prison, though Aguilera-Mederos’ attorney, James Colgan, argued Monday that case law allowed Jones to find a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years. “Sometimes it feels like being half a person when you lose your spouse,” said Kathleen Harrison, who was married to Doyle Harrison. Those killed were: Miguel Angel Lamas Arellano, 24, William Bailey, 67, Doyle Harrison, 61, and Stanley Politano, 69. Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, 26, lost his brakes in Colorado’s high country and failed to take a runaway truck ramp before he rammed his speeding semi into stopped traffic under an overpass in Lakewood on April 25, 2019, causing a fiery 28-car pileup that killed four people and wounded six others. “I will state that if I had the discretion, it would not be my sentence,” the judge said.
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The truck driver who killed four people when he drove his out-of-control semitrailer into stopped traffic on Interstate 70 in Lakewood nearly three years ago was sentenced Monday to 110 years in prison.ĭistrict Court Judge Bruce Jones imposed the sentence after finding it was the mandatory minimum sentence set forth under state law and that he had no discretion to impose a shorter prison term. Lakewood Police DepartmentRogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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