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Legal matters: Two-year sentence for baseball bat assault

A Silverton man has been sentenced to two years in prison after attacking another man with a baseball bat.

Zachary Andrew Short, 31, pleaded guilty Nov. 28 in Marion County Circuit Court to unlawful use of a weapon and attempted second-degree assault for an incident on Aug. 5.

Short allegedly injured a man known to him with a bat. Additional details were not public.

Short also pleaded guilty Nov. 28 in a separate case to unlawful use of a motor vehicle for stealing a car Nov. 3. He was sentenced to a concurrent six months in prison.

He similarly pleaded guilty to vehicle theft in 2021 and received two years in prison. At the same time he pleaded guilty to arson in a separate case and was sentenced to a concurrent 16 months in prison

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