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Scott S. McCleery talks to his attorney, Mary Ellen Ditchey, prior to a Wednesday sentencing hearing in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.
WARREN — A Niles man who received a split verdict last month from a Trumbull County jury was sentenced to an indefinite term of six- to seven-and-a-half years in prison.
Scott S. McCleery, 41, of Difford Drive, Niles, was convicted March 23 on charges of attempted rape, felonious assault and domestic violence. The jury acquitted him on charges of rape, a second count of felonious assault and disrupting public services.
At a hearing Wednesday, Common Pleas Judge Ronald J. Rice chose to merge the attempted rape and felonious assault convictions for the purposes of sentencing. The judge then made the domestic violence punishment part of a consecutive term.