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A Rangeview High School student will start his senior year with a clean record this week after an Aurora judge acquitted him of assaulting a fellow student with his wheelchair.
The 17-year-old was accused of battery, misdemeanor assault and reckless endangerment for running over a girl’s foot in March. Half of one of her toenails was ripped off.
A municipal judge found the teen not guilty Monday.
The defendant says he uses the wheelchair because of a form of cerebral palsy. He said earlier this year he didn’t even know he had run over the girl’s foot until he received a summons in the mail.
A school resource officer had said the boy sometimes was reckless in operating his electric wheelchair, zipping around corners without slowing.
