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A Texas jury has found 53 year-old Philippe Padieu of Frisco, Texas, guilty of six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He is the sixteenth person with HIV in Texas to be successfully prosecuted for either HIV exposure or transmission since 1997.

Update: May 30th.

Original posting, from May 28th, below:

Mr Padieu was arrested in July 2007 after two women went to police after testing HIV-positive .

The police investigation led to four further complainants.

The case has had widespread media coverage throughout the United States, highlighted in today’s Dallas Morning News story summarising the trial.

After five hours of deliberations, the [jury’s] guilty verdicts were read in a large ceremonial courtroom where the trial was moved to accommodate local and national TV crews covering the case, including ABC’s 20/20.

Prosecutors likened Mr Padieu to a “ticking time bomb, a lethal weapon.”

“It’s as if he took a gun and shot