[Defendant] " Xu was arrested back in 2019 after Yuan became suspicious that her illness (which she thought might be cancer) might be related to a water bottle that she used at work. When her parents used the bottle to cook, they also became ill. She set up a spy camera at work and caught David Xu tampering with the water bottle. It was tested and found to contain “extraordinarily high levels of cadmium, a poisonous heavy metal.”
That seems a pretty strong case for two counts of poisoning and an attempted murder prosecution.
Yet, the prosecutors dropped the attempted murder charge and accepted a plea on the two poisoning counts. Then a probation officer recommended no jail time. " https://jonathanturley.org/2024/04/...al-for-scientist-who-tried-to-kill-colleague/ [Apparently Defd spent 2 weeks in jail when originally arrested before bail was set]
That seems a pretty strong case for two counts of poisoning and an attempted murder prosecution.
Yet, the prosecutors dropped the attempted murder charge and accepted a plea on the two poisoning counts. Then a probation officer recommended no jail time. " https://jonathanturley.org/2024/04/...al-for-scientist-who-tried-to-kill-colleague/ [Apparently Defd spent 2 weeks in jail when originally arrested before bail was set]
