The state will not revoke the license of an Orange County Paramedic who evaluated a Chapel Hill High School Football player who later died.

Back in August of 2008, paramedic James Griffin was called to the Chapel Hill home of Atlas Fraley by the 17-year-old who was complaining about cramping following a football scrimmage.

Griffin responded but did not transport the teen, who later died of unknown causes.

The North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services investigated Griffin's actions, but found no reason to revoke his paramedic credential.

"The state looked at it from a competency level, and it found the individual was competent to remain a paramedic. We found no evidence to show otherwise," said Drexdal Pratt the chief of the North Carolina office of Emergency Medical Services.

Griffin was terminated as an Orange County Paramedic on Aug. 22 of 2008 by the county medical director.

"In this particular case, there were some deviations of protocol," said Pratt. "There were things not done correctly from a protocol standpoint."

And the report says it was the violations of those protocols that caused Orange County's EMS medical director to release Griffin.

But despite those violations, the state says it wasn't enough to prohibit Griffin from working as a paramedic in North Carolina.

"Nothing rose to the level such that the county or state felt it should take disciplinary action against his credential," explained Pratt. "In fact, the Orange Country medical director documented he could work elsewhere, just not in the Orange County system."

But the attorney representing the Fraley family says although the report recommends no discipline, it detailed other problems with Griffin's actions.

"Far from exonerating him in this particular instance the opposite is actually true," claimed attorney Donald Strickland. "They did in fact find there was evidence that he did violate protocols of Orange County EMS."

And attorney Strickland says, the Fraley family will take legal action but hasn't decided yet on the form of that action.