State v. Dominguez

The State appeals two rulings by the circuit court regarding the trial and conviction of Alvio Dominguez for official misconduct and grand theft. The first issue is whether the submission of falsified tuition reimbursement paperwork by a county employee was properly charged as eight separate violations of each statute (per the amended information) or should instead be considered one course of conduct and thus a single violation of the applicable statutes (as the trial court determined).

The second issue is whether the trial court erred by declining to assess the police investigative costs as…