The state Attorney General’s Office plans to "contest" a $7.7 million jury verdict against two of its former employees whom a dentist claimed denied him a fair trial in a Medicaid fraud prosecution, a spokeswoman for the office said.

Leonard Morse, a South Slope-based dentist, was charged with overcharging Medicaid by $1 million in April 2006 but was subsequently acquitted. He then filed a civil rights action in the Eastern District against then Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and several staff.