Slagle files notice of appeal

A former Hillsboro attorney who was convicted in December on charges of aggravated theft, grand theft, and falsification has filed a notice of appeal.

John W. Slagle, according to court documents, was found guilty of grand theft, a felony of the fourth degree; theft from an elderly person, a felony of the third degree; aggravated theft, a felony of the third degree; grand theft, a felony of the fourth degree; and falsification, a misdemeanor of the first degree during a jury trial in December in Highland County Common Pleas Court. 

On April 12, Slagle's attorney, Katherine A. Szudy, filed in Highland County Common Pleas Court a document stating, "Notice is hereby given that John W. Slagle, defendant-appellant, hereby appeals to the court of appeals of Highland County, Ohio, Fourth Appellate District, from the judgment entry of conviction, entered in this action on the 19th day of March, 2010." 

On March 19 Slagle was sentenced to one and a half years on the theft charge, and two years on a grand theft charge. Those sentences were ordered to be served concurrently to each other, but consecutively to the sentences stemming from the remaining charges, which were from a separate case. He was sentenced to three years for the aggravated theft charge, one year on the grand theft charge, one and a half years on the theft charge, and six months on the grand theft charge. 

The sentence was also to be served consecutively to a sentence handed down in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. 

He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amounts of $73,516, $18,546, and $82,242, as well as court costs.

During sentencing Slagle was represented by attorney Diane M. Menashe.

According to the Web site of the Supreme Court of Ohio, Slagle withdrew from the practice of law in January 2009, and court documents show he was facing disciplinary action by the court.