Legal Opinion
In re Toney
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided May 30, 2014No. 2012 CA 1887PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McClendon, j.
|2In this appeal, Royce Toney, the former Sheriff of Ouachita Parish, challenges a declaratory opinion of the Louisiana Board of Ethics (Ethics Board), finding that Sheriff Toney could not use his campaign funds to pay legal fees that he incurred in connection with the defense of criminal charges against him contained in a federal indictment. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On February 22, 2012, the United District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Monroe Division, indicted Sheriff Toney on twenty-one counts, which included…
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