Anticlimactic end to HP case – Charges Dropped
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In dropping felony charges against former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn over the HP spying scandal, the state of California acknowledged Wednesday that despite the bravado and bluster of its charges, it just didn’t have a very strong case.
After weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations among prosecutors and defense attorneys, the state dropped all four felony charges against Dunn, who was vilified for starting a spying operation on her board. California Attorney General Jerry Brown, who inherited a case that was filed Oct. 4 by then-Attorney General Bill Lockyer, also agreed to reduce the four felony charges against each of the three remaining defendants to one misdemeanor each.
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