(Photo: Lakewood Police Department) GOLDEN, Colo. - Days after a truck driver was sentenced to 110 years in prison for causing a fiery pileup that killed four people on a Colorado highway, millions have signed an online petition asking for his sentence to be reduced.
On Monday, a judge sentenced 26-year-old Rogel Aguilera-Mederos to 110 years following his October conviction for the April 25, 2019, crash on Interstate 70, just west of Denver.District Court Judge Bruce Jones imposed the sentence after finding it was the mandatory minimum set forth under state law, The Denver Post reported."I will state that if I had the discretion, it would not be my sentence," the judge said.Millions across the country agreed, signing a Change.org petition.