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10 years for Northfield man in disabled man attack

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The last of five defendants is now sentenced for the 2008 kidnapping and beating of a mentally disabled man in Dakota County.

Judge Tim Wermager sentenced 22-year-old Jonathan Diepold to 10 years in prison Friday. That's a stiffer sentence that recommended by Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines.

Diepold waived his right to a jury trial and was found guilty by the judge last October of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, assault, false imprisonment and theft.

Diepold and four others were charged in the beating of 24-year-old Justin Hamilton. Hamilton was twice lured from his home, taken to a rural area and tortured for hours.

Three other men and a teenage girl pleaded guilty. The girl had said that Hamilton had assaulted her, but prosecutors say she made that up.

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