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.

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.

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.

Six months after Peter Cichuniec’s sentencing, a judge vacated his five-year prison term and reduced his sentence to four years of probation.

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 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,