ROCHESTER, Minn. – A Dover man with anger-management issues, Joseph Martin, 32, was sentenced to 28 months in prison. In December Martin assaulted a jail deputy while awaiting sentencing for two earlier assault cases. He was being held for knocking out two men at a Dover bar. His record includes, also, a 2019 attack on a fellow inmate at a state prison where he was serving time for sexually assaulting his girlfriend. In sentencing, Judge Lisa Hayne could have gone heavier than 28 months but didn’t.
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Martin. Record shows assaults on jailer, bar buddies, girlfriend, former prison jnmate.