A San Francisco Superior Court jury found a 24-year-old man guilty of accosting Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel inside a San Francisco hotel on Feb. 1, 2007.

Eric Hunt faced charges of attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, battery, elder abuse and stalking, as well as special allegations of hate crimes. Hunt had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

After nearly two days of deliberation, the jury found 24-year-old Eric Hunt guilty of false imprisonment, along with a special allegation the offense was a hate crime, for a Feb. 1, 2007 incident at the Argent Hotel in downtown San Francisco.

Hunt was also convicted of misdemeanor battery and misdemeanor elder abuse, but the jury found him not guilty of attempted kidnapping, stalking and false imprisonment of an elder, a separate false imprisonment charge.

Hunt smiled frailly as the verdict was read, once glancing back at his mother, who wept quietly.

He then agreed to withdraw his earlier not guilty by reason of insanity plea, which would have required a second trial to determine his sanity at the time of the crime.

Hunt’s sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 18.

(Source: NBC11)