Randy Roedema, a former Aurora, Colo., police officer, has been sentenced to 14 months of jail with work release and four years of probation after being convicted of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault in the death of Elijah McClain.
Roedema was sentenced on Friday by Adams County District Judge Mark Warner. Roedema, who was convicted Oct. 13, had pleaded not guilty to the charges. The maximum sentence the former officer faced was six years in prison. He could have also been sentenced to probation only. Roedema will serve his sentence in a county facility rather than state facility.
Warner on Friday said his decision was influenced by the indifference shown by the officer but also his “good character.” He said he believed Roedema had “rehabilitative potential.”
But, Warner added, McClain “really wasn’t much of a threat to anybody” when he’d been killed.