A US state can try to keep a sex offender who infected at least 13 women with HIV locked up beyond the 12-year prison sentence he completed in April, a judge has ruled.
Prosecutors can use New York 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 Buffalo courtroom on 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.
Defence lawyer Daniel Grasso had argued in June that Williams should not be subject to the three-year-old civil-confinement law because it was passed long after he pleaded guilty in 1998 to statutory rape and reckless endangerment.
He also said Williams had already finished the rape sentence at the time and had begun serving his consecutive sentence for reckless endangerment, a crime not eligible for civil confinement.
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