The reduction of a 110-year prison sentence to 10 years by Colorado's governor for a trucker convicted of killing four people in a crash is hurting prosecutors' efforts to negotiate sentences in other cases, according to two district attorneys.
The Dec. 30 commutation by Gov. Jared Polis for the trucker was"unprecedented, premature and unwarranted" because Rogel Aguilera-Mederos' case was still active, with a judge scheduled to review a prosecutor's request to reduce the sentence, said Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty and Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein.
"Sentences should be influenced by the facts and circumstances, not by petitions, online surveys or tweets," they said, referring to a national campaign to lower Aguilera-Mederos' sentence prior to Polis' decision. Dougherty told The Post that he and Rubinstein met with Polis after they sent the letter and that the prosecutors"are optimistic that our concerns were understood and that what happened in that case was an exception."
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