'Rage-filled maniac' attacked driver with hatchet
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Background: Joseph Chastain (KATU). Inset: The hatchet used in the attack (Portland Police Bureau).

An Oregon man who attacked a man with a hatchet outside the victim’s home after a road rage incident has learned his fate.

Joseph K. Chastain, 33, will spend 42 months — or three and a half years in prison — for the 2023 attack that wounded Matt Griffin. Chastain learned his fate on Friday after pleading guilty to charges of attempted assault in the first degree.

“Mr. Chastain was intent on assaulting me, and after a violent attempt on my life, he succeeded,” Griffin told Multnomah County Circuit Judge Kelly Skye, The Oregonian reported.

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