LISBON — A Pennsylvania man convicted in a sex for hire case in Columbiana County Municipal Court earlier this month filed an appeal Tuesday with the Seventh District Court of Appeals to challenge the case on two fronts.

The appeal filed for Zavea Daniel Green, 21, Pittsburgh, Pa., challenged Judge Tim McNicol’s denial of his motion to dismiss the case on Nov. 12, 2025 and the conviction on Jan. 6 this year.

Green was fined $750 and given a suspended 90-day jail term for engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools, but with the sentence stayed pending appeal. He was ordered to complete 20 hours of community service and he had already completed a course for prostitution prevention.

Green was accused of requesting sexual conduct from an undercover agent with the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force for an agreed upon price of $100 last year, then driving to Salem for the meeting with the phone used to make the arrangements in his possession.

Some of the probable causes listed for review by defense attorney Ron Yarwood included: the court overruling the defendant’s motion to dismiss; sufficiency of evidence and weight of evidence.

In his ruling denying the defendant’s motion to dismiss, McNicol disagreed with defense arguments that the law regarding sex for hire was vague, overbroad and violates due process. He wrote that “the defendant is free to date, marry and engage in sexual activity with any consenting adult he chooses. He runs afoul of the law though when he acts recklessly and with heedless indifference when he agrees to pay an anonymous stranger for sex.”