North Lima man gets prison term for stabbing estranged wife

YOUNGSTOWN — A North Lima man who pleaded guilty to multiple charges in a violent confrontation with his estranged wife last fall is going to prison for eight years.

Rudolph K. Matland, 28, of Market Street, drew the sentence today from Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Matland had earlier pleaded guilty to felonious assault, kidnapping, aggravated burglary and menacing by stalking in the attack on Anne Matland, 25, in her West Side residence in Youngstown on Sept. 30.

In a plea bargain, the prosecution dropped an attempted murder charge naming Anne Matland as the victim, a disrupting public services charge, and charges of aggravated burglary and felonious assault that named his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Walter, as a victim in the same incident.

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