20 Years Isn't Long Enough (Florida).

Sounds like prosecutors see some fault in Crete and need the driver to testify against them. I did a quick search on the accident and the drivers in both cases have a very similar past..
Read this article...sounds like Crete dropped the ball on hiring that driver..

http://www.gainesville.com/news/20060127/semi-driver-has-past-arrests

Not a fan of plea deals and I agree now that the driver in the OP got a very harsh sentence compared to the Crete driver.

 

Guess nobody brought their wide angle lens that day

 

^^^^ Very good. . . . YUP.

 

That's a tough video to watch,
I can see the truck driver getting punched a time or two.