American Medical Association.Chorcai wrote:
Hold on are you saying there is 0.2% chance of getting HIV from someone infected with AIDs ?? Where did you get that from ?Bertster7 wrote:
If you call a 0.2% chance a virtual certainty...teddy..jimmy wrote:
Technically he could. He had the necessary intent, that death is a virtual certainty, and the act of committing murder will eventually occur because she will die.
That is (roughly speaking) the chance of catching HIV from an infected partner through a single act of heterosexual intercourse....
Which is why I think classing this as murder is wrong. Manslaughter would be fine, but for murder you need to establish intent and I don't think they could for a case like this. I think his intent was to get laid, not to kill them - but I don't know the details.
1 in 500 chance.