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Title: State Ex Rel. Rome v. Fountain
Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
Release Date : January 18, 1984
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 63 KB

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The opinion of the court was delivered This is a consolidated appeal of two criminal cases in which defendants, James Fountain and Joseph P. O'Sullivan, III, were each charged with multiple counts of perjury (K.S.A. 21-3805). For purposes of this appeal, the facts are undisputed and essentially are as follows: On March 9, 1981, Richard J. Rome filed two criminal complaints in Reno County District Court against the defendants. At the time the complaints were filed, Fountain was the sheriff of Reno County, and O'Sullivan was the county attorney. The perjury charges were based upon statements made by the defendants at a hearing before the Kansas Commission on Judicial Qualifications which at the time was investigating Rome's alleged misconduct as a judge. Rome was subsequently removed from his position as Associate District Judge of the 27th Judicial District. State ex rel. Comm'n on [234 Kan. 944] Judicial Qualifications v. Rome, 229 Kan. 195, 623 P.2d 1307, cert. denied 454 U.S. 830 (1981).