Eli D. Weaver sentenced to 15 years to life

  • By Sharon Haught of The Holmes County Journal
  • September 30, 2009
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With courtroom number one in the Wayne County Courthouse filled to capacity Sept. 23, Wayne County Common Pleas Judge Robert Brown asked defendant Eli D. Weaver whether he had anything he wished to say to the court before sentencing was pronounced. “I’m very sorry for what I did and I hope everybody here can forgive me for what I did,” Eli Weaver said, after a long silence. After hearing from Eli Weaver’s attorney and the prosecuting attorney, Judge Brown handed down a sentence of 15 years to life on the charge of complicity to commit murder in the June 2 death of his wife, Barbara Weaver, of 10465 Harrison Road in Apple Creek. Eli Weaver had initially entered a plea of not guilty to the more serious charge of aggravated murder with a firearms specification during the June 23 arraignment. Days before his trial was scheduled to begin, Eli Weaver entered into a plea arrangement with the Wayne County prosecutor’s office, under which he changed his plea to guilty on the charge of complicity to commit murder and agreed to testify at the trial of Barbara A. Raber, of 6109 Township Road 310 in Millersburg. Eli Weaver’s sentencing comes less than 24 hours after Raber was found guilty of aggravated murder by a Wayne County jury in Barbara Weaver’s death. Raber is expected to be sentenced on Sept. 30.


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