FILE-This Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005 file photo shows Ohio Gov. Bob Taft, left, addressing the court as his attorney, William Meeks, right, looks on in Columbus, Ohio. Legal records of the historic conviction of Taft in a 2005 rare-coin investment scandal have been shielded forever from public view. Taft, descendant of a U.S. president, is Ohio's only governor convicted of a crime. (AP Photo, File)