Two weeks ago, the Arapahoe District Attorney’s Office which covers Aurora, Colorado, rendered a stunning decision. In July 2024, a 15-year-old Colombian teenager who was 1) an illegal immigrant; 2) did not have a driver’s license; and 3) had taken his mother’s Jeep on a joy ride with friends and was driving 90 miles-an-hour in a 45-mile-per-hour zone, struck the car of 24-year-old Kaitlyn Weaver, and ended her life. The teenager was charged with vehicular homicide, and the district attorney’s office promised there would be no plea deal and that they would prosecute the Colombian illegal to the full extent of the law.
When the top D.A. position changed hands two months later, so did those terms. A plea deal was given, and it is a rank insult to the life of Kaitlyn Weaver, to her parents John and Michelle, and the Weaver family:
Under the new District…
