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02:23 PM PDT on Wednesday, September 22, 2004
OREGON CITY -- Ward Weaver's lawyers said Wednesday that their client
decided to seek a plea deal after getting a letter from his daughter,
begging him to bring the matter to a close.
Weaver pleaded guilty to killing two of his daughter's friends, and was
sentenced to two life sentences in prison without parole.
With the plea, Weaver, 41, avoided the death penalty, and brought an end
to a case that has riveted Oregonians
Weaver's attorney, Michael Barker, said Mallori Weaver wrote a poignant
letter to her father in prison and expressed enormous pain. The letter
said, "Daddy, make it stop."
That is when Weaver decided to change his plea to guilty, and told his
attorney, "I am putting an end to this."
But Clackamas County District Attorney John Foote said that Weaver's
lawyers had approached his office with the offer for a plea deal only
after Judge Robert Herndon denied a change of venue request for Weaver's
trial.
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