HIV-positive man sentenced 35 years for spitting at officer
DALLAS - An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Because a jury found that Willie Campbell used his saliva as a deadly weapon, the 42-year-old will have to serve half his sentence before becoming eligible for parole. He was sentenced Wednesday.
Campbell was being arrested in May 2006 for public intoxication when he began resisting and kicking inside the patrol car, Dallas police office Dan Waller testified.
Campbell was convicted of harassment of a public servant.
HIV has been found in saliva and tears in very low quantities from some AIDS patients. It is important to understand that finding a small amount of HIV in a body fluid does not necessarily mean that HIV can be transmitted by that body fluid. HIV has not been recovered from the sweat of HIV-infected persons. Contact with saliva, tears, or sweat has never been shown to result in transmission of HIV."
-http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/transmission.htm
Ridiculous if you ask me. Sure he was likely a bit unruly, but what they convicted him for is a sham.
You have a VERY small chance of getting it from saliva, theres like 100 times less virus particles than blood, semen, or vag juice. If he would have nutted on him, it’d be more appropriate.