State v. McGhee

During the summer of 1984, the city of Cleveland fell victim to the theft of approximately $45,000 from project CLEAN, a summer youth employment program. Following a lengthy investigation, Darryl Williams, a CLEAN employee, was arrested in connection with the thefts. Williams implicated his supervisor at CLEAN, the defendant Edward McGhee.

In case No. 198899, McGhee was charged with one count of grand theft (R.C. 2913.02) with prior theft and violence specifications, one count of tampering with records (R.C. 2913.42) with a violence specification, sixteen counts of forgery (R.C. 2913.31) and…