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A Cuban truck driver who crashed into traffic on Interstate 70 in Denver, killing four people, was sentenced Monday to 110 years in prison, according to Colorado Judicial Department spokesman Rob McCallum.
Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, 26, was driving a semi-trailer in April 2019, traveling at 136 km / h (85 mph), when the brakes failed, he told investigators at the time.
He tried to pull over to the shoulder to avoid stopped traffic, but another semi-trailer had already stopped there, according to an arrest affidavit.
The crash resulted in a 28-car crash that left four dead, the Lakewood Police Department said at the time.
Aguilera-Mederos was found guilty in October and convicted of vehicular manslaughter and 23 other charges, according to the Colorado First Judicial District Attorney's Office.
The other 23 counts include six counts of battery in the first degree for extreme indifference;
10 counts of attempted battery in the first degree for extreme indifference;
two counts of reckless vehicular assault;
a reckless driving charge;
and four counts of negligent driving that resulted in death.
Aguilera-Mederos was sentenced to the minimum available to him on all counts, to be served consecutively, totaling 110 years, McCallum said.
During a sentencing hearing Monday, Colorado District Court Judge A. Bruce Jones said he was subject to mandatory minimum sentencing laws in the state, according to CNN affiliate KMGH.
"Colorado law requires courts to sentence most people sentenced for certain categories of crimes to a mandatory minimum period of incarceration," according to the Colorado General Assembly website.
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"There will be an appeal on the facts and errors made at the trial," said attorney James Colgan, who represents Aguilera-Mederos.
Colgan told CNN that Aguilera-Mederos does not deserve to die in prison.
"The problem with this appeal will not be the sentence itself. Under the law, the court was not wrong. However, the law, as written, is barbaric and draconian," Colgan told CNN.
"There needs to be a change in the law."
CNN's Amanda Watts contributed to this report.
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