A California researcher pleaded no contest to one felony count of poisoning his coworker, which allegedly made the female victim gravely ill. However, the defendant was granted what a judge called an “extremely generous” plea deal despite hidden-camera video of him tampering with his colleague’s water bottle.
Rong Yuan began working at Berkeley Engineering and Research in January 2017, and she worked alongside David Xu, a fellow UC Berkeley alumnus.
‘I almost died.’
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Yuan told the San Francisco Standard that her first workplace encounter with Xu was tense, saying that Xu told her she wasn’t allowed to use the company’s material characterization lab.
Yuan said she told Xu, “I know how to use all these tools. I’ve even repaired them.”
Yuan recalled, “I just decided I will never overlap with
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