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Final trial over Elijah McClain’s death in suburban Denver spotlights paramedics’ role

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By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press

DENVER (AP) — The last trial in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain after he was stopped by police in suburban Denver is expected to delve into largely uncharted legal territory. It will be two paramedics, and not police officers, on trial this time. A jury being chosen starting Monday will decide if the paramedics committed a crime when they gave the 23-year-old Black man an overdose of the powerful sedative ketamine after he had been stopped and forcibly restrained by police. Three officers already have gone to trial and two were acquitted.

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