NOTORIOUS

Today's discussion on Shevory's Notorious HIV was extremely interesting to me. I love to hear the class get excited about a topic, and especially argue with how an author does things. I feel when this happens we get more out of the assignment. Nushawn Williams was a sticky situation and reminded me of the case I have been reporting on Twitter about lately. Phillipe Padieu, 54, has been sent to prison after transmitting HIV and infecting at least 11 past girlfriends. After it was proven that he knew he was infected and continued to have unprotected sex, Padieu was convicted in a TX courtroom of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and later sentenced to 45 years in prison. Like Dr. Orvis said, it is hard to come to a definite answer when dealing with the issue of transmission, denial, and knowledge of infection. There are so many "what if"s, so many "but..."s it is hard to decide how to go about this within the means of the law--or if it should be brought into this spectrum at all.

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