UTICA, NY (WUTR/WFXV/WPNY) -- One corrections officer has pled guilty, while another has rejected a plea deal on Friday in the Messiah Nantwi murder trial.

First reported by the Daily Sentinel, Judge Michael Nolan said on Friday, October 31 that he is looking at Monday, March 23 to start the trial for several other officers.

Meanwhile, in Friday's proceedings, former Corrections officer Donald Slawson pled guilty to one count of tampering with physical evidence. Senior Assistant District Attorney Alphonse Williams say that Slawson was alleged to have mopped blood off the floor of the infirmary after the beating, which Slawson admitted to on Friday.

Judge Nolan sentenced Slawson to one year of conditional discharge, and he was also ordered to resign from his position as a corrections off

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