Madison County Sheriff's Deputy Justin Watson at Huntsville Hospital following arrest of Robert Bryant on Aug. 22, 2012. (Photo by Madison County Sheriff's Department)

A former Madison County deputy, indicted in a revenge beatdown, has signaled in court documents that he intends to plead guilty.

Justin Watson, charged in the assault of Robert Bryant at a nightclub north of Huntsville after he believed Bryant said something about Watson's then-fiancee, now wife, in July 2012.

A month later, the FBI testified in federal court that Watson pulled over Bryant in a traffic stop, beat him with a baton and choked him unconscious. Bryant was charged with felony assault of an officer.

Bryant sued Sheriff Blake Dorning, Watson and seven other deputies in 2014. He received $625,000 to drop the suit in August of 2014. The FBI announced after the settlement that it was investigating possible civil rights abuses by local police. The federal government indicted Watson on five counts in August of 2015.

The charges on which Watson has been indicted: Two related to the stop and beating, one related to lying about it under oath and two more related to intimidating witnesses, including aiming an unloaded gun at a fellow deputy and pulling the trigger.

According to an order filed Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Karon Owen Bowdre said Watson has asked for a hearing to change his plea. Watson had previously entered a plea of not guilty.

Watson is scheduled to appear before the judge on Wednesday at 11:30 at the U.S. Courthouse in downtown Huntsville.

Watson left the sheriff's department last year.

Click here for the seven-part series on the revenge beatdown.