Petition to reduce 110 year sentence for truck driver in deadly I-70 pileup reaches nearly 1.5 milli

I haven't been around here posting for a long time, but this topic makes me passionate. And I know some will disagree, vehemently, with my position. I just want to say I respect THEIR position, and I hope they would respect mine.

I think the sentence is fair and sets a high bar for good, safe behavior. This guy...this Rogel Aguilera-Mederos...I was FURIOUS with him after the accident and all through the legal proceedings. So when I read about the sentence he received I thought THANK GOD! Thank God justice was done.

Ask the families of the people who burned up in that big pile up that HE CAUSED by his homicidally negligent behavior if THEY think the sentence was fair.

 

Oh, you gotta be careful about saying that on this here forum! Back before the election, when I got on this forum and talked about a national trucking boycott if the democrats stole the election with fake votes, all my posts about that topic were taken down. We'll see how long this little conversation we are having here persists before it just disappears.

 

Did anybody actually read the articles where it said the judge stated he did not like the sentence, but he was bound by the sentencing guidelines?

 

I am going to follow the advice of Nancy Reagan and JUST SAY NO to signing this wrong-headed petition.

I agree, this fellow did not get the sentence he deserved. There is no way on this earth to give him what he deserved.

The way to calculate the correct sentence should be the number of actuarial years his victims could have lived, had he not killed them...plus the years of life expentency which the injuries to the other victims reduced. Add that all up and you get the sentence...which he should actually serve, but instead (given the limits of human lifespan, currently) he would die before serving that just sentence.

IN OTHER WORDS...

One hundred and ten years isn't nearly enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Not going to sign

 

12:50 pm MST
certainly not going to sign it but if I was going to should I use...
Jack Meoff?
Mike Hunt?
Haywood Jablome?
Hugh Jassole?
Bob Abooey?

 

Looks like it’s reached almost 4.5 million signatures now.

 

Thanks. BJ and the bear! I used to love that show.

 

The people signing it, I doubt they are truckers. They are the "don't send anybody to jail" lunatic crowd, the same people who want no bail and think it's cruel and judgemental that commercial drivers should have to speak English. I feel like finally, FINALLY somebody in this country got a sentence that almost fits the crime, except it should be EVEN MORE SEVERE.

 

Idk if it’s fair or not, but I do know one thing. It makes me wonder why I’m in a profession where I could be held to such repercussions for a mistake. It’s common knowledge that people don’t think straight when they panic, as I’m sure this young man did.

Whether right or wrong I am again trying to program my mind to take the ditch or any other option if at all possible. I can only hope that in the heat of an accident I don’t panic and make the wrong decision.