Peter Cichuniec, the paramedic convicted in Elijah McClain's death, has been released from prison after his sentence was reduced to probation. Judge Mark Warner cited 'unusual and extenuating circumstances' in his decision.
FILE - Lawyers console paramedic Peter Cichuniec after his sentence is read, March 1, 2024, in Brighton, Colo. FILE - Sheneen McClain, left, the mother of Elijah McClain, and a supporter leave the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colo. March 1, 2024. FILE - Lawyers console paramedic Peter Cichuniec after his sentence is read, March 1, 2024, in Brighton, Colo. FILE - Lawyers console paramedic Peter Cichuniec after his sentence is read, March 1, 2024, in Brighton, Colo.
McClain was walking down the street in a Denver suburb in 2019 when police responding to a suspicious person report forcibly restrained him and put him in a neck hold.Police deny Venezuela gang has taken over rundown apartment complex in Denver suburbconvicted in December “Pete is coming home!” Cichuniec’s supporters cried out after Warner reduced the sentence at the hearing, according to the Post. They declined to comment to the newspaper.
“When you’re talking about a life being taken and that this individual was found guilty of that, and then we see something like a sentence being vacated and a person being put on probation — put on probation — it is absolutely mind boggling to me,” she said.
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