You can still deserialize to the type you want without having to create another class by selecting the internal object.
var acStateObject = JObject.Parse(inputJson);
JToken acStateToken = acStateObject["acState"];
return acStateToken?.ToObject<acState>();
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By the way, you really should be using proper C# naming conventions. This is why the Newtonsoft library has attribute classes that allow you to specify how the JSON keys are named, so that you don't need to name the identifiers in the same way.
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