Peter Cichuniec -- one of the paramedics involved in the death of Elijah McClain in Colorado in 2019 -- was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison earlier this year but had his sentence reduced to probation on Friday.

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.

Paramedic Peter Cichuniec's 5-year sentence for overdosing Elijah McClain during an arrest was changed to probation after only 6 months.