Appellate court overrules woman's conviction on vicious-dog law

YOUNGSTOWN — A three-judge panel of the 7th District Court of Appeals has unanimously overturned a city woman’s 2010 municipal-court conviction under a state vicious-dog law the Ohio Supreme Court declared unconstitutional in 2004.

The appeals court overturned the conviction of Cheryl Mallis, 51, of Euclid Boulevard. The one-year probation sentence Mallis received from Judge Elizabeth Kobly of Youngstown Municipal Court had been stayed pending appeal.

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