The sentencing has been postponed for one of the three men who are facing charges in connection to the stabbing of an Albert Lea man in August.

Marcus Allen-Wayne Hallmark, 19, of Columbia Heights, had been scheduled to be sentenced on Monday in Freeborn County District Court for third-degree aiding and abetting assault. However, because he was arrested on Friday in Anoka County — and was not in attendance at the Monday hearing — his sentencing has now been rescheduled for April 18.

Hallmark pleaded guilty to the lesser of his two charges in court in October. The plea was classified as an Alford plea, in which a defendant maintains innocence but admits the prosecution has enough evidence to convict, usually of stiffer charges.

He is accused of holding down the man with co-defendant David Joshua-John Skotte, 19, while 44-year-old Todd Raymond Paulson, of Blaine, allegedly stabbed him.

Hallmark’s lawyer and the Freeborn County Attorney’s Office are recommending Hallmark serve a presumptive sentence of probation. If he violates his probation, he faces either a year and a day or 15 months in prison, depending on his criminal history score.

He will get credit for time already served in jail.

Co-defendant David Joshua-John Skotte faces a similar outcome after he entered his plea in January.

Paulson has pleaded not guilty to his charges.