It also was the last of three trials against police and paramedics charged in the death of McClain, who officers stopped following a suspicious person complaint.
An Aurora police officer was convicted of homicide and third degree assault earlier this year, while two officers were acquitted.
The jury on Friday found Aurora Fire Rescue paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec guilty of criminally negligent homicide following a weekslong trial in state district court.
Cooper was found not guilty on the assault charges and was not taken into custody.
Officers also pinned down McClain before Cooper injected him with an overdose of ketamine.
Prosecutors said the paramedics did not conduct basic medical checks of McClain, such as taking his pulse, before giving him the ketamine.
“The national coverage of the cases against these paramedics unquestionably influences practices in real-time,” Hodge said. »
