Talk:Criminal transmission of HIV

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if this law applies in the UK how is it that Dica 2005 was not charged with these offences but a s20 offence? i believe he should have been charged with attempted murder

I think it's down to the fact that this page was originally developed over a US law rather than an english and welsh.

None of the people convicted in the UK have been charged with deliberate infection, but rather reckless infection - the courts have decided that being aware of their infection (or possibility of infection, in one case) they took an unreasonable risk. (See the page on recklessness.)

In practice, as long as most HIV- people expect disclosure but would react to it by running away screaming, many HIV+ people will not disclose, at least at first. Personally, I can see why, but it seems not everyone can and unfortunately some of them serve as judges or on juries. Lovingboth 13:03, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notability

FYI on the Talk:List_of_HIV-positive_people, we discussed whether every person convicted is notable. This point was made:

Criminal transmission cases used to be unusual but over the last year or two they've become commonplace - there seems to be a new one in the news almost every week (for some examples, see Criminal transmission of HIV, this table and the list in this article). With this in mind, I'd question the notability of Carl Leone. It appears that the only unusual feature of his case is the number of charges involved. Trezatium 07:49, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I do want to note that the Canadian cases do seem two years out of date. Canuckle 22:26, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sparse on US legal info

Some kind of link or reference to more information on legal status in the US would certainly be useful. Omgoleus 03:07, 5 October 2007 (UTC)