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Colorado governor shortens trucker's prison term to 10 years

Colorado governor shortens trucker's prison term to 10 years
2 years 9 months 4 weeks ago Thursday, December 30 2021 Dec 30, 2021 December 30, 2021 5:57 PM December 30, 2021 in News - AP National
FILE - This file photo provided by the Lakewood Police Department on Friday, April 26, 2019, shows Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos. Prosecutors, on Monday, May 20, 2019, want a judge to require a GPS monitor for Aguilera-Mederos, now that he has posted bail. Aguilera-Mederos, a truck driver, is accused of causing a fiery pileup on April 25, that killed four people on a Colorado highway. (Lakewood Police Department via AP, File)

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has shortened the prison sentence of a truck driver convicted in a deadly explosive crash to 10 years, drastically reducing his original 110-year term that drew widespread outrage.

The decision Thursday on Rogel Aguilera-Mederos' sentence was among several end-of-the-year commutations and pardons issued by Polis.

The move comes days after a judge scheduled a hearing for next month to reconsider the sentence at the request of the district attorney, who had planned to ask that it be reduced to 20 to 30 years.

The 2019 crash killed four people.

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