State v. Ferguson

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This is an appeal from a judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, directing payment of attorney fees from the campaign fund of Thomas E. Ferguson, defendant-appellee.

In October 1993, the Ohio Attorney General appointed a special prosecutor to investigate whether Ferguson had solicited campaign contributions from employees in the State Auditor’s Office. Based on the investigations, the state of Ohio, plaintiff-appellant, filed State v. Ferguson, case No. 95CR-2269, and indicted Ferguson on eighty counts. However, this indictment was dismissed at the request of the…