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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...
...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...
...George Washington University in Washington found that 25 of some 500 AIDS-related bills introduced in state legislatures this year proposed criminal sanctions for conscious transmission of the disease. Florida and Idaho have made it a crime knowingly to expose another person to the virus. The possible penalties include prison terms of 60 days in Florida, six months in Idaho. A similar criminalization measure awaits Governor Edwin Edwards' signature in Louisiana: penalties could range as high as a $5,000 fine and ten years in prison. A new Nevada law requires that anyone arrested for prostitution must take an AIDS...
...convicted of the minutely itemized charges, as seems almost certain under the tightly controlled Soviet legal system, five of the defendants face sentences of up to ten years in prison. They include Dyatlov, former Plant Director Viktor Bryukhanov, 51, and former Chief Engineer Nikolai Fomin, 50. The three men have already been stripped of Communist Party membership and have spent the past year in a Kiev jail, awaiting trial. Wearing plain dark suits and shirts open at the collar, all three looked gaunt and weary...
...Kovalenko, 45, who supervised the No. 4 reactor, and Boris Rogozhkin, 52, the boss of the midnight-to-8 a.m. shift (the fatal explosions occurred at 1:25 a.m.). Both could receive ten- year sentences. The sixth defendant, Government Inspector Yuri Laushkin, 50, faces up to two years in prison for failing to carry out his responsibilities...