MAN PLEADS INNOCENT IN WOMAN'S STABBING

April 12, 1991

CAMBRIDGE -- A former Dorchester man, charged in a brutal stabbing of a Framingham woman while out on parole, was ordered held on $2 million surety bail, or $200,000 cash, yesterday in Middlesex Superior Court.

Donald C. Martin, 32, pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and battery with a deadly weapon and attempted murder in the attack last Oct. 19. The victim was stabbed 19 times, choked, and left for dead in a closet in the apartment she shared with a friend of Martin's.Assistant District Attorney David Linsky told Judge Robert A. Barton that Martin had been on parole from the Concord prison, where he had been serving a sentence for indecent assault and battery on a retarded person.

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