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City man sentenced for assaulting inmate
By altoonamirror.com- Kay Stephens
Published: 07/13/2018

HOLLIDAYSBURG — A 25-year-old Altoona man has been sentenced to nine to 18 years in prison for his role in the March 2017 assault of a fellow inmate with tobacco in his rectum.

Maurice D. Wakefield II told Blair County Judge Wade Kagarise in court Thursday that he was sorry about what happened to the victim and how things turned out that night.

“No person should have to go through what (the victim) did,” Wakefield said.

Despite that sympathy, a plea from Wakefield’s mother for leniency and legal arguments from Wakefield’s attorney, who asked for a new trial, Kagarise handed down the lengthy sentence in what the judge called a serious case with serious charges.

“It’s troubling that these offenses occurred while you were an inmate,” Kagarise told Wakefield.

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