Warren lawyer to spend 20 days in jail


October 26, 2007 at 8:25p.m.

Warren lawyer to spend 20 days in jail

LISBON — A Warren attorney has been ordered to turn himself in to the Columbiana County Jail on Halloween to serve 20 days for contempt of court for his behavior in a murder case.

Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge C. Ashley Pike imposed the sentence Thursday on George Kafantaris.

The lawyer is to report between 6 and 7 p.m.

The judge imposed two 10-day contempt sentences, and ordered that Kafantaris pay the cost of his incarceration. The cost wasn’t known. A court official said the county would bill the attorney.

Kafantaris made an oral bid to stay the sentence, but Judge Pike denied it.

The lawyer can ask the 7th District Court of Appeals to stay the sentence.

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