Michael Pavlik asks for early jail release

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Michael Pavlik

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Michael Pavlik Jr. wants to get out of jail early.

On March 18, Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced Pavlik, 33, to 60 days in the county jail and three years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor domestic-violence charge.

The 33-year-old victim told police Pavlik punched her in the eye, threw her into a coffee table and dragged her across the floor at his Cornell Avenue residence last November.

Judge Krichbaum has made no ruling on Pavlik’s motion, which was filed Wednesday by Pavlik’s lawyer, Benjamin Joltin, and no hearing on it has been scheduled.

The motion said Pavlik, the brother of boxing champion Kelly Pavlik, had no prior criminal record, apologized for his crime, is unlikely to re-offend, can resume employment immediately at a lawn-care business and is responsible for supporting his children.

Pavlik urged that he be ordered to report to the Community Corrections Association for alcohol and anger-management counseling.

When Pavlik was sentenced, the victim said she didn’t want Pavlik to be jailed, but she wanted him ordered to participate in an alcohol-abuse recovery program, the motion said.