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Ex-coroner runs for job he left amid guilty plea
by The Associated Press
Aug 23, 2010 | 1713 views | 7 7 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend | print
OXFORD — Lonnie Weaver will run again for Lafayette County coroner, less than a year after leaving the job and pleading guilty to embezzlement.

Circuit Court Clerk Mary Alice Busby says Weaver has been certified to appear on the Nov. 2 ballot. It's a special election to fill the final year of a four-year term that Weaver started.

The Oxford Eagle reports that 52-year-old Weaver can run again because his case was non-adjudicated, meaning the embezzlement conviction doesn't appear on his record.

Weaver was accused of stealing money from the Mississippi Coroner-Medical Examiners Association while he was the group's president.

He was sentenced to repay $5,000 and serve one year of probation, ending this December.
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