Elijah McClain (Courtesy of McClain family) BRIGHTON — A judge in Adams County District Court on Friday wiped away the 5-year prison sentence being served by a former Aurora paramedic convicted in the death of Elijah McClain. Judge Mark Warner vacated Peter Cichuniec’s prison term and converted the sentence to four years of probation, a move prosecutors previously said would “undermine the jury’s verdict” in the case. “The court finds, really, there are unusual and extenuating circumstances and they are truly exceptional in this particular case,” Warner said during a brief hearing. Cichuniec, 51, was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and assault by drugging in the 2019 killing of McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after Aurora police put him in a neck hold and a paramedic injected him with an overdose of the sedative ketamine. Cichuniec was supervising the paramedic who injected the drug.