DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Man gets prison in protection-order violation

The subject was under a court order to stay away from his ex-girlfriend.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Terry Wiery insisted he was minding his own business when police showed up at his former girlfriend's house last year and arrested him.
"He was sitting and peacefully inside the house and sipping a glass of soda," said Wiery's lawyer, John Dixon.
The problem was that Wiery wasn't supposed to be there at all. He was under a court order to stay away from the woman who lived there.
Prison sentence
Wiery, 49, of North Meridian Road, was in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, where he was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison by Judge R. Scott Krichbaum for violating a protection order.
The judge said Wiery has twice been convicted of domestic violence and of violating three protection orders.
Wiery said he had lived with the complainant for some 15 years before she made him move out. They had a daughter together, and he had gone to the house to see the girl, he said.
Set-up alleged
Dixon said the woman set up Wiery by calling him, telling him she had dropped the protection order and inviting him to the house. When he got there, she called the police.
"There was no anger, no violence," Dixon said. "He was just there visiting his daughter."
The complainant was not in court for sentencing. Dawn Krueger, an assistant county prosecutor, said the woman told police she had not invited Wiery to her house.