State v. Blair Olsen

EISMANN, Justice.

This is an appeal out of Jefferson County from a judgment that the Defendant was guilty of three counts of misuse of public funds. We affirm the judgment as to one count and remand this case to the district court with instructions to vacate the convictions as to the other two counts.

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Factual Background.

Blair Olsen served as sheriff of Jefferson County from January 1989 until May 2015, when he resigned due to his conviction in this case. While he was the sheriff, the county provided Mr. Olsen with two cell phones and paid the bills for those phones. It initially did so because…