Judge OKs Trial for Illinois Paramedics in Patient’s Death

Judge OKs Trial for Illinois Paramedics in Patient’s Death
Paramedics Peggy Finley (L) and Peter Cadigan (R) in a file photo. Sangamon County Sheriff Department
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Two Illinois emergency medical professionals should be tried on first-degree murder charges after a patient they strapped facedown to a stretcher suffocated, a judge ruled Friday.

Peggy Finley and Peter Cadigan are charged in the December death of 35-year-old Earl Moore in Springfield. They pleaded not guilty Friday and are being held in the Sangamon County Jail on $1 million bond each.