Stanley P. Aronson v. City of Akron

OPINION

DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

Ohio’s “corrupt activity” law — sometimes called “Ohio RICO,” after the federal statute on which it is patterned 1 — provides that a person convicted of violating Ohio Rev.Code § 2923.32 (a section that makes it a first degree felony to conduct the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of corrupt activity) shall criminally forfeit his interest, if any, in property used in the course of or derived from the illegal conduct. See § 2923.32(B)(3). The law further provides that during the pendency of a criminal proceeding under Ohio RICO, the state, by…