Elmira, N.Y. — A former New York state corrections officer sent to prison in the fatal beating of an inmate last year at a Central New York state prison has been released from prison.

The former corrections officer, David Walters, was let out Thursday morning from the Elmira Correctional Facility in Chemung County while his lawyer, Nicholas Passalacqua, attempts to withdraw his guilty plea.

State Supreme Court Justice James McClusky ordered Wednesday that Walters could be released on either $50,000 cash bail or $100,000 bond.

Walters was one of 10 corrections officers who were indicted in the fatal beating of inmate Robert L. Brooks at the Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County. He accepted a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter in exchange for a

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