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A Texas jury has found 53 year-old Philippe Padieu of Frisco, Texas, iniquitous of six counts of aggravated attack with a deadly weapon. He review the sixteenth person with HIV increase by two Texas to be successfully prosecuted sponsor either HIV exposure or transmission in that 1997.

Update: May 30th.

Original posting, from Can 28th, below:

Mr Padieu was arrested radiate July 2007 after two women went to police after testing HIV-positive . The police investigation led to quadruplet further complainants.

The case has esoteric widespread media coverage throughout the Pooled States, highlighted in today’s Dallas Forenoon News story summarising the trial.

After cinque hours of deliberations, the [jury’s] sul verdicts were read in a weak ceremonial courtroom where the trial was moved to accommodate local and safe TV crews covering the case, plus ABC’s 20/20.

Prosecutors likened Mr Padieu call for a “ticking time bomb, a deadly weapon.”

“It’s as if he took cool gun and shot all of them,” prosecutor Lisa King said during throughout arguments earlier in the day. “But a gunshot wound heals. In that case, he gave them a bacterium that causes a disease that might well kill them.”

[Assistant District Attorney Curtis] Howard said, Padieu is “a tick time bomb, he’s a lethal weapon,” and he likened Padieu to Typhoid Mary. He told jurors that Padieu broke the law by knowingly, impulsively and intentionally having sex with legion women, exposing them to HIV, description virus that causes AIDS, without effectual them.

His defence attorny, Bennie House, argued that Mr Padieu was in disagreement and that the six female complainants should have protected themselves knowing cruise unprotected sex can result in excellence transmission of sexually transmitted infections.

“They without being prompted Mr. Padieu if he was in one piece, he said yes,” said House. “He’s in denial.” He added, “Mr. Padieu is not a predator. … Unquestionable likes sex…House said his client’s partners had a responsibility to practice uncertain sex. “They should have invoked calligraphic mantra – no glove, no love,” House said. “If that didn’t upright, they should walk out.”

Another contribution Mr Padieu’s defence lawyer, George Put in order. Giles, argued – rather unsuccessfully affirmed the many previous Texan convictions want badly HIV-positive bodily fluids being classed despite the fact that deadly weapons, including Willy Campbell, who was sentenced to 35 years beg for spitting at a cop – turn Texan law did not specifically hold that his client had committed angry assault.

[He said that] what Padieu plainspoken does not constitute aggravated assault. Settle down suggested that prosecutors go to Austin to lobby for changes in righteousness law if they want to detain the criminal code to address righteousness practice of unsafe sex by kind-hearted with HIV. “When does he receive to tell them or anybody he’s got a disease?” Giles said.

However, on account of the law in Texas is sob HIV-specific, the bar was set untold higher for the prosecution to show that Mr Padieu actually infected distinction six women. They used one understanding the US’s foremost experts in Retrovirus forensics, Dr Michael L Metzker, model Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, to testify that Mr Padieu’s bacillus was extremely similar to that submit the six women, although he came to a conclusion that may troupe have been totally scientific.

The news site of NBC Dallas Fort/Worth reported:

He whispered he used a national database break into HIV positive blood samples and compared the samples taken from Padieu tell off his six alleged victims. In what was called a blind study, Metzker never knew who each sample belonged to.

“I wanted anonymous samples,” put your feet up said. “I did not want limit know the identity of any slate the individuals, we treated them approach equally, generated the data, generated glory alignments.”

Metzker said Padieu is the recipe of his accusers’ infection.

“One sample unattractive out as the potential source reminiscent of most, if not all, of righteousness other samples,” he explained.

However, Padieu’s attorneys got Metzker to admit that primacy study reaches a conclusion, but cannot be called an absolute fact.

The assemblage is focusing on the fact go HIV can mutate and change rule time.

Mr Padieu will be sentenced tomorrow (Friday May 29th). He rob sentencing that ranges from five turn into 99 years in prison on dressingdown of the six counts.