Kim Kardashian is expecting Colorado Governor Jared Polis to “do the right thing” in response to the continued criticism surrounding Rogel Aguilera-Mederos’ increasingly publicized vehicular homicide case.
Amid a series of tweets on Tuesday, Kardashian—who recently announced that she’s passed California’s First-Year Law Students’ Examination—explained that she had taken a “deep dive” into the case after seeing a lot of social media activity focused on a number of unsettling details about the case’s outcome.
As previously reported in connection with a petition that has since (at the time of this writing) garnered more than 4 million signatures, Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos —a truck driver who’s now 26—received a 110-year sentence in connection with a fatal highway accident that left four people dead in 2019.
As detailed in testimony, Aguilera-Mederos was carrying lumber in his truck when brake failure occurred, spurring the accident. While prosecutors in the case argued that a runaway ramp should have been used, per the Associated Press, Aguilera-Mederos had explained that he was having difficulty avoiding other vehicles in traffic while also attempting to slow his truck’s speed by shifting into lower gears.
“He was not drunk or under the influence, his brakes on the semi tractor-trailer failed,” Kardashian said in a tweet on Tuesday. “Another shocking and unfair part of this case is that the judge didn’t want to sentence him to such a lengthy sentence. However, because of the mandatory minimums in Colorado, his hands were tied. Mandatory minimums take away judicial discretion and need to end.”
Elsewhere, Kardashian tagged Gov. Polis, stating he was a “good person” who would “do the right thing” about the case. She also pointed out the prosecutor’s widely-criticized-as-tasteless social media post bragging about receiving a brake shoe as a gift.
“I pray that Governor Polis, who has been a leader on supporting reforms that increase human dignity in the legal system, will commute his sentence,” Kardashian wrote in her most recent tweet about Aguilera-Mederos. See more below.
Prosecutor Kayla Wildeman’s social media post (the date of which has not been confirmed) has recently received renewed attention, including from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). In a statement to KMGH-TV, a rep for LULAC criticized the post and called for a full investigation.
“They are dancing on the graves of the victims and showing their glee that a man faces a sentence equal to three generations in an unjust verdict,” the rep said. First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King, meanwhile, has also criticized the social media post. King, who was also recently announced to have filed a motion to set a hearing to reconsider Aguilera-Mederos’s sentence, said the brake seen in the photo was “not a piece of evidence” from the case in question.
