Kim Kardashian has thanked Colorado Governor Jared Polis for reducing to 10 years the lengthy prison sentence of truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for a fatal car crash.

On December 13, 2021, Judge A. Bruce Jones sentenced Aguilera-Mederos to more than 100 years in prison for his role in a pileup on a Colorado highway in 2019. Aguilera-Mederos was found guilty on 27 counts, including four counts of involuntary manslaughter.

Aguilera-Mederos, a 23-year-old Cuban immigrant at the time, was driving an 18-wheeler on Interstate 70 in Lakewood, near Denver, for his job at a trucking company. When the vehicle’s brakes failed, it slammed into 28 cars, setting off a massive explosion and killing four commuters stuck in rush-hour traffic.

Earlier this month, Kardashian supported growing calls for Polis to commute Aguilera-Mederos’ sentence. She said she had been looking “intensively” into Aguilera-Mederos’ case, which has attracted national and international attention, to “find out what the situation is.”

At the time, Kardashian wrote in posts to her 271 million followers: “He (Aguilera-Mederos) was not drunk or under the influence of drugs (at the time of the accident). His brakes on the semi-trailer failed.”

On Thursday (December 30), Governor Polis reduced Aguilera-Mederos’ prison sentence to 10 years.

In his commutation letter to Aguilera-Mederos, Polis wrote: “The length of your 110-year sentence is simply disproportionate to your crimes or the sentences imposed on others for similar crimes.”

Shortly thereafter, Kardashian, who has proven herself to be a staunch advocate for US prison reform, posted a copy of the official decree in a series of Instagram stories and thanked Polis for his “empathy and leadership” in the case.

The 41-year-old reality TV star wrote on Instagram: “Although his new sentence is 10 years, he now has the opportunity to come home in five years and be with his son and wife. (This case) was a clear example of why mandatory minimum sentences do not work and must be abolished.”

Kardashian is studying law and recently announced that she passed the exam for first-year law students (the so-called “Baby Bar”) in California.