DENVER (CN) — A former Aurora, Colorado, paramedic asked the Colorado Court of Appeals on Wednesday to overturn a jury’s convictions of criminally negligent homicide and assault for his role in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man.
“This is the only way the verdict makes sense with the jury instructions,” said attorney Christopher Jackson on behalf of former paramedic Peter Cichuniec.
Cichuniec is one of three men ultimately convicted in McClain’s death, all of whom have asked the Court of Appeals to overturn their juries’ findings…