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...forward as they continue on their quest for total genocide. Meanwhile, the world just stands by and watches the Serb forces wreak havoc and destruction. The U.N. has totally disgraced itself in its handling of the situation. There is too much politics involved, and no true action. MICHAEL MARKOWSKI Newark, Delaware Via E-mail...
Similar cases are cropping up in civilian courtrooms. Two weeks ago, Los Angeles prosecutors filed attempted murder charges against Joseph Markowski, 29, accused of selling his blood and engaging in prostitution even though he allegedly knew he was suffering from AIDS. In June, James Vernell Moore, a federal-prison inmate who tested positive for exposure to the AIDS virus and who bit two guards, was convicted by a Minneapolis federal jury of two counts of assault with a deadly weapon: his mouth and teeth. In Columbia, S.C., assault and battery with intent to kill has been added to a rape...
...Angeles County District Attorney Ira Reiner says the "egregiousness" of Markowski's actions led to the attempted murder charge. California health code provisions that might apply to AIDS carry only misdemeanor penalties. In Fresno, authorities had used that code two weeks earlier to bring misdemeanor charges against an accused prostitute suspected of carrying the AIDS virus. She could get up to 90 days in prison for the alleged violation. Local Prosecutor James Oppliger cannot recall, however, any previous case in which the communicable-disease law has been invoked. Says he: "We're not sure how viable the charge will...
...Kill me! Kill me! I have AIDS!" yelled Joseph Markowski, a drifter and prostitute, as he tried to grab a Los Angeles bank guard's gun. Detained for a 72-hour mental-health observation, he was released prematurely by county health officials the following day. Meanwhile the police were investigating a disturbing item found in his clothes: a receipt for $9 from a Los Angeles plasma center...
...next day, when Markowski returned to the center to sell more blood, he was arrested and charged with attempted murder. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ira Reiner calls Markowski's actions "the moral equivalent of the person who put poison in Tylenol." Reiner admits it will be difficult to prove Markowski intended to kill, but claims that the defendant's statements prove he acted "maliciously." "I know that AIDS can kill," Reiner quoted Markowski as saying, "but I was so hard up for money that I didn't give a damn...