A retired Louisiana state trooper will not serve jail time in the officer involved death of a 49-year-old black motorist, Ronald Greenewho cried on body camera footage “I’m your brother! I’m afraid!” like six soldiers Tased, beaten, dragged and beaten him until he stopped breathing.

On Monday, Oct. 28, Kory York pleaded no contest to eight counts of misdemeanor simple assault in exchange for a sixth-month suspended sentence and one year of probation, his attorney, Mike Small, confirms to PEOPLE. He was previously charged with negligent homicide and two counts of embezzlement.

“The result is a complete victory for Mr. York!” Small wrote in an email to PEOPLE.

The conviction, called a “plea of ​​nolo contendere,” will not be admissible in the pending wrongful death lawsuit filed by Greene’s family and allows him to keep his $83,000-a-year pension, according to Small.

Still, York conviction is the first among the five police officers charged in the Union Parish, Louisiana case, and only one police officer is still scheduled to stand trial, according to the Associated Press. (A sixth soldier, Christopher Clay Hollingsworth, deceased in 2020, after a single vehicle accident just hours after being told he was being fired).

Small says that “if subpoenaed,” York would “testify truthfully” in the last remaining trial, but that he had not reached a deal with prosecutors as part of his plea deal.

The police officers’ cases have developed along with an ongoing “pattern or practice.” investigation in the Louisiana State Police” by the Department of Justice to determine whether the department “uses excessive force and engages in racially discriminatory policing activities.”

PEOPLE reached out to federal authorities for an update on the investigation, which they announced in June 2022. Lester Duhé, press secretary for Attorney General Liz Murrill, did not directly answer any of PEOPLE’s multiple questions about the investigation, including if it was federal. Authorities planned to press charges.

State authorities originally told Greene’s grieving family that he had died in a high-speed car crash, and state police filed an accident report without any reference to the police’s strength, according to the AP, which notes that a doctor emergency room worker quickly cast doubt on his claims. .

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Then, two years after Greene’s death, the AP obtained body camera footage, which the outlet said showed the six officers tasering him, choking him and cursing at him, with Hollingsworth hitting him in the head with a flashlight and boasting about that he had “beat the shit out of him eternally alive.”

In the footage, York, who previously faced the most serious charges, is shown dragging Greene by his ankle shackles, keeping him handcuffed and lying face down for several minutes, while yelling, “Shut up” and “Lay down on your f– – —- belly like I told you! Greene finally stopped breathing, according to the AP, which reported that York was briefly suspended, for 50 hours, for his role in the arrest.

But, more than five years after Greene’s death, the 49-year-old’s cause of death remains unclear.

In an autopsy report obtained by the AP, the coroner noted multiple contributing factors: repeated electric shocks by officers, physical fighting, prone restraints, blunt force injuries and “complications of cocaine use.”

Ultimately, a forensic pathologist did not specify the main contributing factor, resulting in uncertainty. major to York’s plea deal, according to the AP.

PEOPLE reached out to District Attorney John Belton with a series of questions about the case and to comment on whether or not he believed justice had been served. Belton, who declined to answer the same question posed by the AP, had not responded to the Oct. 29 request by publication on Oct. 30.

But Greene’s mother, Mona Hardin, was unequivocal in her views when she addressed the judge at Monday’s sentencing, the AP reported.

“This shouldn’t end today,” Hardin said. “It’s wrong. “It’s unfair.”