More than 2 million sign petition to change sentence of I-70 truck driver who caused deadly crash

Anne Trujillo

Denver 7 ABC

Dec 16, 2021

Domingo Garcia, the national president of LULAC, a Latino civil rights organization, says they’re backing the petition, calling the sentence an injustice.

“This case is so egregious,” Garcia said. “It boggles the mind that here we are in 2021 and that somebody who was not intoxicated, not on drugs… It's an accident, the brakes went out. But here's the Latino driver, he gets charged, convicted and given 110 years of prison on his first offense.”

Garcia said it’s not the jury who convicted him, but Jefferson County District Attorney Alexis King because of the charges she chose to file against Aguilera-Mederos. He believes they can file charges with the Colorado Bar Association “to see if she abused her authority.”

“We can ask for a grand jury to be convened to look at official oppression,” Garcia said. “We're going to ask the Department of Justice to come and investigate the district attorney's office to see if white defendants are treated different from Black and brown defendants and if there is a pattern and system of practice of just justice and racism discrimination in that district attorney's office.”