State prosecutors offered to drop felony charges against former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn and the four other defendants in the company’s boardroom spying scandal if they agree to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, a defense lawyer said Thursday. Stephen Naratil, lawyer for private investigator Bryan Wagner, said the attorney general’s office offered a plea deal that would eliminate all four felony charges against his client in exchange for a misdemeanor guilty plea.

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