(New York) State Can Try to Detain Man Who Infected Women (with HIV)

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Source: Associated Press

Filed at 3:25 p.m. ET

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- The state can try to keep a sex offender who infected at least 13 women with the AIDS virus locked up beyond the 12-year prison sentence he completed in April, a judge ruled Monday.

Prosecutors can use the state's civil-confinement law -- meant to keep the most dangerous sex offenders out of communities after prison -- to try to detain Nushawn Williams indefinitely, State Supreme Court Justice John Michalski said.

Williams, 33, mouthed ''I love you'' to his wife as he was led in handcuffs into the courtroom Monday and said nothing as Michalski announced that he was denying a request by Williams' lawyer to throw out the attorney general's civil-confinement case.

Williams is scheduled to face a civil-confinement trial in October.

Defense attorney Daniel Grasso had argued in June that Williams should not be subject to the 3-year-old civil-confinement law because it was passed long after he pleaded guilty in 1998 to statutory rape and reckless endangerment.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/07/19/nyregion/AP-US-Sex-Offender-AIDS.html

[Radical Activist]

1. Lines out the door to get tested?

How many people in that small town did he have sex with?

[msanthrope]

4. 47 partners in Chautauqua County, more in NYC.

He's mentally ill and a danger to others. He needs confinement.

[Recursion]

2. Wasn't that a Law & Order episode? NT

[SnakeEyes]

3. I think it was SVU

Can't keep track. LOL

[Recursion]

5. I'm pretty sure I remember Lenny tackling the guy

But then again he did have some SVU cameos IIRC.