A trial date has been scheduled within the demise penalty case towards a 34-year-old Sacramento man charged with the January 2021 killing of two girls, one in every of them a minor, in Vacaville.
Raymond Michael Weber will return to the courtroom of Superior Court docket Decide Jeffrey C. Kauffman at 9 a.m. on June 24 for trial affirmation. The trial is now set for 10 a.m. on Oct. 14, 2026.
The District Legal professional’s Workplaces introduced its intention to hunt the demise penalty case earlier this yr. Chief Deputy Public Defender Tamani Taylor will signify Weber at trial however Weber has determined to signify himself, prompting Decide Kauffman to nominate Fairfield lawyer Robert Boyle as a “standby counsel” throughout the penalty part of the case. If wanted, Boyle would act as an adviser accessible to step in and supply authorized help, if wanted, ought to Weber face a authorized subject he can’t navigate on his personal, with out interfering along with his proper to self-representation.
Raymond Michael Weber, 33 (Solano County Sheriff’s Workplace)
If the jury finds Weber responsible as charged, the trial will proceed to the penalty part, throughout which jurors assessment aggravating and mitigating proof. Afterward, jurors should then return a verdict of both demise or life in jail with out the potential for parole.
The Weber case is notable not solely as a result of it’s charged as a double murder but in addition as a result of, investigators reported, he livestreamed a few of crimes and their aftermath in a Vacaville residence.
A beforehand convicted felon, Weber is accused of taking pictures and killing Savannah Theberge, 27, who had ties to Utah and Georgia, and a 15-year-old lady from Elk Grove throughout the early hours of Jan. 30 in an residence within the 500 block of Rocky Hill Highway.
As beforehand reported, throughout a July 2023 preliminary listening to, Vacaville law enforcement officials testified that Weber was a human trafficker who used romance to recruit a sufferer and preserve them in keeping with violence, likening the connection to “modern-day slavery.”
Investigators spoke with the mom of the slain teenager earlier than she was killed, saying that she had earlier tried to cease the motive force of a black sedan, whom she described as a “light-skinned African-American male with dreadlocks” of black and brown hair, from driving away along with her daughter. Police say the lady’s cellphone was tracked to the Oxford Suites, a Rohnert Park lodge and a receipt from the lodge confirmed that Theberge had registered utilizing her bank card. Moreover, investigators obtained lodge surveillance video footage, exhibiting Weber and the lady.
Deputy District Legal professional Eric Attraction is main the prosecution.
Apart from two counts of first-degree homicide, with enhancements, Weber is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, human trafficking, and human trafficking depriving private liberty, additionally felonies with enhancements.
