Truck driver's mother vows to keep fighting as judge reconsiders her son's controversial 110-year sentence
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Oslaida Mederos told "Nightline" that her son never intended to hurt anyone.
As a judge reconsiders the controversial 110-year sentence of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, his mother said that she wouldn't stop fighting until her son is back home with his family.
"I feel very sad for the people who lost their lives," Oslaida Mederos told "Nightline" on Monday in an exclusive interview. "And my son is suffering from it, as well as I am. We are Christians, we believe in God and we pray for them. He is a good boy."
Mederos was sentenced on Dec. 13 to 110 years in prison for a 2019 fatal crash on I-70, outside Denver, that killed four people and injured several others – a sentence that the judge in the case said he wouldn't have chosen if he had the discretion.
Amid public outcry over the case, Jefferson County District Attorney Alexis King – the prosecutor in this case – filed a motion earlier this month asking the court to reduce Mederos' sentence, suggesting a 20-30 year sentencing range instead.
