Two former Aurora paramedics could get new trials after the Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday reversed their homicide convictions in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain.
McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was unarmed and not suspected of committing any crime, died after Aurora police put him in a neck hold and a paramedic injected him with an overdose of ketamine, a sedative.
Peter Cichuniec was supervising Jeremy Cooper, the paramedic who injected the drug, and both were convicted in 2023 of criminally negligent homicide in McClain’s death. Cichuniec was also convicted on one count of second-degree assault for unlawful administration of drugs…