BRADFORD, Pennsylvania) [January 31, 2023]: 

McKean County District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer reports that the Pennsylvania Superior Court has affirmed the conviction and sentence of a Bradford man convicted of stabbing another man  in 2020.

Matthew Howard was charged with stabbing another man in the neck on July 24, 2020 in the City of Bradford.  A jury trial occurred in 2021 and a bench warrant was issued for Howard.  The jury convicted him of Aggravated Assault (Serious Bodily Injury); Aggravated Assault (Bodily Injury with a Deadly Weapon); Simple Assault; Recklessly Endangering Another Person; Terroristic Threats; and Possessing an Instrument of Crime. 

Following his conviction, he was sentenced to 7 years to 14 years in the Department of Corrections and 1 year of consecutive probation.  On a separate case, he was sentenced to another term of 1 year to 2 year consecutive for the crime of Inmate Procuring Weapon.

By opinion filed January 17, 2023, the Superior Court affirmed the judgment of sentence. Officer Clayton Yohe investigated the case.  

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