Peter Cichuniec was sentenced in March to five years in prison. On Friday, a judge said he reduced the sentence because of “unusual and extenuating circumstances.”

A paramedic who was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and second-degree assault last year in connection to the 2019 death of Elijah McClain had their five-year prison sentence vacated by an Adams County District Court judge in favor of four years probation Friday.

Adams County District Court Judge Mark Warner in March sentenced Cichuniec to five years in prison — the mandatory minimum prison time required under Colorado law — but Cichuniec in June

The prison sentence for one of the former paramedics convicted in the death of Elijah McClain has been vacated by a Colorado judge.

A judge is freeing from prison a Colorado paramedic convicted in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020.

A Colorado judge on Friday reduced to probation the prison sentence of a paramedic convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who died after police put him in a chokehold, a court official said.

A Colorado judge has decided to release the paramedic who received a five-year sentence for injecting Elijah McClain with an overdose of ketamine (a sedative) while he was in police custody in 2019. Judge Mark Warner overturned the sentence,