{"id":5027,"date":"2021-12-31T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:30:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:30:44","slug":"mercy-kim-k-helps-reduce-colorado-truck-driver-110-year-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/mercy-kim-k-helps-reduce-colorado-truck-driver-110-year-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy: Kim K helps reduce Colorado Truck Driver 110 Year Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saving Grace.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is commuting the sentence of a truck driver who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for an interstate wreck that killed four people, he announced Thursday, calling the sentence &#8220;highly atypical and unjust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rogel Aguilera-Mederos will now serve a 10-year sentence and will be eligible for parole on December 30, 2026, according to a clemency letter Polis wrote to him.<\/p>\n<p>#KimKardashian, who had advocated for his sentence to be commuted, celebrated the news of Aguilera-Mederos&#8217; commutation on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This case was a clear example of why mandatory minimums don&#8217;t work and need to be abolished. I&#8217;m grateful to Governor Polis for his empathy and leadership on this case,&#8221; Kardashian West tweeted. &#8220;While his new sentence is ten years, he will now have an opportunity to come home in five years and be with his son and wife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts on the new sentencing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saving Grace. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is commuting the sentence of a truck driver who was sentenced to 110 years&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[531,183,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5029,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions\/5029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}