Defense attorneys for former MPD officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith rested their cases. Closing arguments begin Tuesday at 10 a.m.

Closing arguments were expected Tuesday in the federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged with violating Tyre Nichols’ civil rights in a beating that proved fatal following a 2023 traffic stop.

Three former Memphis officers have been convicted of charges of witness tampering in the 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.

Closing arguments were delivered Wednesday in the case of the three former Memphis police officers who were charged in the January 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols. The jury pool in the federal trial is made up of seven men and seven women,

The three former officers were convicted of obstructing justice in the 2023 death of Tyre Nichols, but acquitted on the most serious civil rights charge in a federal trial that lasted about a month.

Officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith were all convicted of witness tampering in federal court, according to a copy of the verdict reviewed by PEOPLE. Haley was also convicted of violating Nichols' civil rights by causing bodily injury and of conspiring to witness tamper, charges on which Smith and Bean were acquitted.

The future of three former Memphis officers charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols is in the hands of a jury after weeks of testimony in federal court

"Five officers beat Tyre Nichols. Five officers left him to die," prosecutor Kathryn Gilbert told jurors in her closing argument Wednesday afternoon.