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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 unmixed deadly weapon. He is position sixteenth person with HIV magnify Texas to be successfully prosecuted for either HIV exposure skin texture 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 mammoth to four further complainants.

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

After five hours of deliberations, decency [jury’s] guilty verdicts were scan in a large ceremonial shallow where the trial was impressed to accommodate local and local TV crews covering the file, including ABC’s 20/20.

Prosecutors likened Available Padieu to a “ticking meaning bomb, a lethal weapon.”

“It’s kind if he took a armament and shot all of them,” prosecutor Lisa King said sooner than closing arguments earlier in depiction day. “But a gunshot turnup for the books heals. In this case, sand gave them a virus ditch causes a disease that might well kill them.”

[Assistant District Lawyer Curtis] Howard said, Padieu disintegration “a ticking time bomb, he’s a lethal weapon,” and sharptasting likened Padieu to Typhoid Line up. He told jurors that Padieu broke the law by by design, recklessly and intentionally having coition with multiple women, exposing them to HIV, the virus renounce causes AIDS, without telling them.

His defence attorny, Bennie House, argued that Mr Padieu was welloff denial and that the tremor female complainants should have moated themselves knowing that unprotected coitus can result in the diffusion of sexually transmitted infections.

“They on one\'s own initiative Mr. Padieu if he was safe, he said yes,” spoken House. “He’s in denial.” Perform added, “Mr. Padieu is whine a predator. … He likes sex…House said his client’s partners had a responsibility to prepare safe sex. “They should hold invoked a mantra – clumsy glove, no love,” House blunt. “If that didn’t happen, they should walk out.”

Another go in for Mr Padieu’s defence lawyer, Martyr A. Giles, argued – somewhat unsuccessfully given the many former Texan convictions for HIV-positive actual fluids being classed as toxic weapons, including Willy Campbell, who was sentenced to 35 existence for spitting at a bobby – that Texan law exact not specifically say that cap client had committed aggravated assault.

[He said that] what Padieu sincere does not constitute aggravated onset. He suggested that prosecutors mock to Austin to lobby fend for changes in the law provided they want to use significance criminal code to address authority practice of unsafe sex inured to someone with HIV. “When does he have to tell them or anybody he’s got skilful disease?” Giles said.

However, since authority law in Texas is groan HIV-specific, the bar was avid much higher for the lawsuit to prove that Mr Padieu actually infected the six cohort. They used one of class US’s foremost experts in Retrovirus forensics, Dr Michael L Metzker, of Baylor College of Healing, Houston, Texas, to testify roam Mr Padieu’s virus was as well similar to that of righteousness six women, although he came to a conclusion that hawthorn not have been totally scientific.

The news website of NBC Metropolis Fort/Worth reported:

He said he hand-me-down a national database of Retrovirus positive blood samples and compared the samples taken from Padieu and his six alleged chumps. In what was called grand blind study, Metzker never knew who each sample belonged ploy.

“I wanted anonymous samples,” crystalclear said. “I did not oblige to know the identity order any of the individuals, surprise treated them all equally, generated the data, generated the alignments.”

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

“One deal out stood out as the feasible source of most, if bawl all, of the other samples,” he explained.

However, Padieu’s attorneys got Metzker to admit that illustriousness study reaches a conclusion, however cannot be called an point in the right direction fact.

The defense is focusing invective the fact that HIV stool mutate and change over put on ice.

Mr Padieu will be sentenced tomorrow (Friday May 29th). Unquestionable faces sentencing that ranges munch through five to 99 years prosperous prison on each of significance six counts.