Roedema was sentenced to 14 months for the third-degree assault conviction and 4 years probation for criminally negligent homicide, to run concurrently with the other charge.
Jurors Friday convicted two Aurora paramedics of criminally negligent homicide but were split on the charges regarding the unlawful administration of ketamine in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain.
The defense called Aurora Fire Rescue paramedic Peter Cichuniec to the stand in his and paramedic Jeremy Cooper's trial involving the death of Elijah McClain.
The final trial over the 2019 death of Elijah McClain after he was stopped by police in suburban Denver is expected to delve into largely uncharted legal territory, with paramedics, not officers, being prosecuted this time.
A jury has acquitted a Denver-area police officer of manslaughter, following trial testimony that he put Elijah McClain in a neck hold before the Black man was injected with the powerful sedative ketamine by paramedics and died.