LISBON — A man who’s been fighting his conviction for assault, domestic violence and aggravated menacing was ordered Friday to self-report to the county jail no later than 8:30 a.m. Feb. 28 to begin serving the 10-day sentence from the 2023 incident.

Charles L. Payne II, 44, a doctor whose most recent address was listed as Saybrook Boulevard, Columbiana, had a hearing in Columbiana County Municipal Court before Visiting Judge Robert Lavery regarding his cases.

His motions for stay of imposition of jail sentence and house arrest were denied.

“It’s time for the defendant to be held accountable for his violent conduct and to serve his sentence,” county Special Prosecutor Jeffrey Jakmides wrote in his motion opposing the stay requested by Payne’s attorneys.

The stay had been requested pending resolution of a filing by the defense with the Ohio Supreme Court to challenge recent decisions by the Seventh District Court of Appeals, which overruled a motion for reconsideration of the affirming of the convictions against Payne and affirmed the trial court’s decision related to the conviction.

The appellate court ruled at the end of November that Payne’s arguments against the convictions lacked merit. According to Columbiana County Municipal Court records, Payne had been fined $500 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 169 days suspended and credit for one day served, leaving a balance of 10 days to serve in jail for the three charges.

Payne had been accused of allegedly threatening a woman and making the woman’s relative believe he would cause serious physical harm to her and others, threatening to shoot them all on Dec. 30, 2023 in East Liverpool. He later on the same day pushed a 76-year-old victim aside in an aggressive manner during a disturbance at an East Palestine residence after he followed the woman from East Liverpool into West Virginia, then to East Palestine.

The case filed by Payne’s attorneys with the Ohio Supreme Court remains pending.