Commissioner Polivka in court on domestic violence charge

WARREN — Dan Polivka, a Trumbull County commissioner charged with misdemeanor domestic violence after he was accused of grabbing his wife, JoAnn, by the neck with both hands and striking her on the cheek, appeared in Warren Municipal Court on Thursday.

Polivka sat in the back of the courtroom, as his attorney, Robert Shaker, talked with Judge Jerry Hayes, sitting by assignment, and Jim Sanders, an assistant Warren law director.

The parties discussed potential jury trial dates in November and another pretrial hearing to take place one week before that. Nothing more was resolved at the hearing, and Polivka did not have to address the judge.