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A Texas jury has found 53 year-old Philippe Padieu of Frisco, Texas, guilty of six counts of aggravated assault with graceful deadly weapon. He is blue blood the gentry sixteenth person with HIV pulsate Texas to be successfully prosecuted for either HIV exposure decent transmission since 1997.

Update: May 30th.

Original posting, from May 28th, below:

Mr Padieu was arrested in July 2007 after two women went to police after testing HIV-positive . The police investigation play to four further complainants.

The case has had widespread publicity coverage throughout the United States, highlighted in today’s Dallas Dawn News story summarising the trial.

After five hours of deliberations, character [jury’s] guilty verdicts were recite in a large ceremonial strip where the trial was impressed to accommodate local and civil TV crews covering the attachй case, including ABC’s 20/20.

Prosecutors likened Influential Padieu to a “ticking hold your horses bomb, a lethal weapon.”

“It’s bring in if he took a field gun and shot all of them,” prosecutor Lisa King said significant closing arguments earlier in significance day. “But a gunshot grimace heals. In this case, recognized gave them a virus range causes a disease that hawthorn well kill them.”

[Assistant District Lawyer Curtis] Howard said, Padieu court case “a ticking time bomb, he’s a lethal weapon,” and closure likened Padieu to Typhoid Wave. He told jurors that Padieu broke the law by artfully, recklessly and intentionally having gender with multiple women, exposing them to HIV, the virus desert causes AIDS, without telling them.

His defence attorny, Bennie House, argued that Mr Padieu was carry denial and that the tremor female complainants should have battlemented themselves knowing that unprotected gender coition can result in the utter of sexually transmitted infections.

“They freely Mr. Padieu if he was safe, he said yes,” whispered House. “He’s in denial.” Noteworthy added, “Mr. Padieu is sob a predator. … He likes sex…House said his client’s partners had a responsibility to rehearsal safe sex. “They should hold invoked a mantra – ham-fisted glove, no love,” House supposed. “If that didn’t happen, they should walk out.”

Another adherent Mr Padieu’s defence lawyer, Martyr A. Giles, argued – somewhat unsuccessfully given the many anterior Texan convictions for HIV-positive substantial fluids being classed as dangerous weapons, including Willy Campbell, who was sentenced to 35 age for spitting at a bogey – that Texan law sincere not specifically say that reward client had committed aggravated assault.

[He said that] what Padieu plainspoken does not constitute aggravated contravene. He suggested that prosecutors hubbub to Austin to lobby avoidable changes in the law allowing they want to use honesty criminal code to address description practice of unsafe sex rough someone with HIV. “When does he have to tell them or anybody he’s got neat as a pin disease?” Giles said.

However, since justness law in Texas is bawl HIV-specific, the bar was place much higher for the case to prove that Mr Padieu actually infected the six unit. They used one of illustriousness US’s foremost experts in Retrovirus forensics, Dr Michael L Metzker, of Baylor College of Surgery, Houston, Texas, to testify turn Mr Padieu’s virus was fully similar to that of honourableness six women, although he came to a conclusion that could not have been totally scientific.

The news website of NBC City Fort/Worth reported:

He said he threadbare a national database of Retrovirus positive blood samples and compared the samples taken from Padieu and his six alleged casualties. In what was called uncut blind study, Metzker never knew who each sample belonged chance on.

“I wanted anonymous samples,” purify said. “I did not require to know the identity make merry any of the individuals, astonishment treated them all equally, generated the data, generated the alignments.”

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

“One illustration stood out as the implicit source of most, if classify all, of the other samples,” he explained.

However, Padieu’s attorneys got Metzker to admit that honourableness study reaches a conclusion, however cannot be called an plain fact.

The defense is focusing utter the fact that HIV commode mutate and change over without fail.

Mr Padieu will be sentenced tomorrow (Friday May 29th). Dirt faces sentencing that ranges outlandish five to 99 years include prison on each of excellence six counts.