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Emile Weaver Wiki – Emile Weaver Biography
A woman who was jailed without parole for killing her daughter by throwing the baby in the trash after giving birth at her university’s sorority house should be resentenced, a divided Ohio Supreme Court has ruled.
Emile Weaver Age
The age of Emile Weaver is 27 years.
Emile Weaver Accused of killing her own daughter
A woman who was jailed without parole for killing her daughter by throwing the baby in the trash after giving birth at her university’s sorority house should be resentenced, a divided Ohio Supreme Court has ruled.
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The judges also ordered that a different judge should handle the resentencing of Emile Weaver, now 27. She was found guilty of aggravated manslaughter and various other charges stemming from the boy’s death in April 2015. Weaver could have been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. in just 20 years, which was requested by her lawyer, but Judge Mark Fleegle said he was not convinced Weaver was remorseful.
Weaver sought post-conviction relief in 2017, arguing that her lawyer failed to provide a full explanation of the neonaticide and that she could have received a lesser sentence. Neonaticide is the killing of a baby within 24 hours of its birth.
Fleegle, who also handled the post-conviction relief hearing, discredited an expert witness who tried to explain Weaver’s condition. An appeals court upheld the sentence, but in its 4-3 decision announced Thursday, the state Supreme Court found that Weaver had no effective counsel in sentencing her.
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Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor noted in the majority opinion that Fleegle demonstrated an arbitrary and unreasonable attitude towards evidence of both neonaticide and “pregnancy denial syndrome”, where a person denies the pregnancy from her.
