Case Study: Guilty Of First-Degree Murder

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A former GW graduate student who was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder might spend his life in prison.

Rahul Gupta – who was found guilty of fatally stabbing his friend, a Georgetown University law student, in October 2013 – will face sentencing on April 16 after the jury deliberated his case for less than five hours, the Washington Post reported.

Maryland, where Gupta was convicted, does not use the death sentence as a penalty for any crime, including murder.

Gupta, who was pursuing a master’s degree in biomedical engineering at the time of the incident, initially told police that he had killed his friend Mark Waugh because he thought Waugh and his girlfriend were romantically involved behind his back. Gupta, Waugh and Gupta’s