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ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. — In the second trial in the case of Elijah McClain's 2019 death, jurors on Monday acquitted Aurora Police Officer Nathan Woodyard on charges of reckless manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
Woodyard's trial began on Oct. 17, just a day after a split verdict was reached in the combined trials against former Aurora Police Officers Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt. Roedema was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault. Rosenblatt was acquitted of all charges.
Woodyard, who was the first officer to make contact with McClain, was accused of putting him in a carotid hold that rendered him unconscious. Prosecutors argued he struggled to breathe after the hold and he was drowning in his own vomit, which was caught in his mask. Gov. Jared Polis signs sweeping Colorado police accountability bill It banned the fleeing felon rule, banned carotid and choke holds, got rid of qualified immunity for officers who acted unlawfully, required law enforcement agencies to put new use-of-force rules in effect by Sept.
"I was expecting to get shot and I thought I’d never see my wife again," Woodyard said in court."... Before that moment, it was police work. Something I would expect, though I hadn’t experienced it before. I felt that I was reasonably safe. Once I heard Roedema say, ‘He tried to grab your gun,’ I thought I was in true danger.... I thought he was trying to get a gun to harm somebody. Me. The other officers.
Woodyard told prosecutors on a cross-examination that if he could go back in time, he would not have applied the hold. He said he also wouldn't have grabbed McClain within a few seconds of pulling up near him. He told prosecutors that he wished he had told the other officers and sergeants that McClain had said he couldn't breathe, and agreed that police should have told paramedics about any medical problems that had happened prior to their arrival.The third trial in the McClain case is scheduled to begin on Nov. 27 for two paramedics, Peter Cichuniec and Jeremy Cooper.
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