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		</div><p>A judge on Monday was set to consider a request from prosecutors to reduce the 110-year prison sentence of a truck driver for a crash that killed four people in suburban Denver.</p>
<p>The sentence given to Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, 26, has drawn outrage from around the country and among truckers, with about five million people signing an online petition seeking clemency for him.</p>
<p>In addition to the prosecution’s request to lower the sentence, Aguilera-Mederos has requested clemency from the Colorado governor, Jared Polis.</p>
<p>Last week, district attorney Alexis King said in a statement she would seek a term of 20 to 30 years in the 2019 wreck on Interstate 70 west of Denver — a sentencing range that reflects an “appropriate outcome” for Aguilera-Mederos’ conduct.</p>
<p>“As the jury found, Mr. Aguilera-Mederos knowingly made multiple active choices that resulted in the death of four people, serious injuries to others, and mass destruction,” King said.</p>
<p>District Court Judge Bruce Jones imposed the 110-year sentence against Aguilera-Mederos on December 13 after finding it was the mandatory minimum term set forth under state law.</p>
<p>“I will state that if I had the discretion, it would not be my sentence,” the judge said during the hearing.</p>
<p>One of Aguilera-Mederos’ attorneys, Leonard Martinez, said the district attorney’s new requested sentencing range is not consistent with similar cases in Colorado and the United States.</p>
<p>“We plan to move forward and to keep all options open in achieving Justice for Rogel, including the possibility of clemency from governor Polis,” Martinez said.</p>
<p>Colorado law allows for sentences for crimes deemed violent to be modified in cases with “unusual and extenuating circumstances,” but those sentences cannot take effect until 119 days after a person enters prison.</p>
<p>Aguilera-Mederos testified that he was hauling lumber when the brakes on his trailer failed as he was descending a steep grade of Interstate 70 in the Rocky Mountain foothills on April 25 2019.</p>
<p>His truck ploughed into vehicles that had slowed because of another wreck, setting off a chain-reaction wreck and a fireball that consumed vehicles and melted parts of the highway.</p>
<p>He wept as he apologised to the victims’ families at his December 13 sentencing.</p>
<p>“When I look at my charges, we are talking about a murderer, which is not me,” he said. “I have never thought about hurting anybody in my entire life.”</p>
<p>Prosecutors argued he should have used a runaway ramp designed for such situations. Aguilera-Mederos, for his part, said he was struggling to avoid traffic and trying to shift to slow down.</p>
<p>The crash killed 24-year-old Miguel Angel Lamas Arellano, 67-year-old William Bailey, 61-year-old Doyle Harrison and 69-year-old Stanley Politano. Relatives of victims supported at least some prison time at his sentencing hearing.</p>
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