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  GUILTY: Merriweather Sentenced to 25 Years in Murder Case web posted March 12, 2013  EDGEFIELD – 34-year-old Phillip Anthony
Merriweather entered a guilty but mentally ill plea in a special one
day of General Sessions Court held Friday. Merriweather had been
charged with the June 22, 2008, murder of his father, Raymond
Merriweather, who was found badly beaten, his hands tied behind his
back and then shot twice in the head with a .38 caliber pistol. The
body was discovered when Merriweather's mother arrived at their
Courtney Road home from church and found her husband dead.The grisly crime scene was said to be one of the bloodiest in recent memory with blood found all over the house, presumably from the initial brutal beating as the father tried to fend off the attack. Raymond Merriweather was 60-year-old at the time of his death. Although Merriweather had been originally charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and murder, he plead guilty to one count of manslaughter and was sentenced to 25 years behind bars. The assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature charge was dropped in exchange for the guilty plea.  He has served a little more than four and a half years at the Edgefield County Detention Center where he was held on no bond awaiting trial. The sentence included credit for time served. Read our earlier reports on the murder here. © Copyright 2012 - 2013 All material is property of
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