TY - JOUR PY - 1999// TI - Blood exposure JO - Aids policy and law SP - 16 EP - 16 VL - 14 IS - 21 N2 - Jerome Murphy, an HIV-positive Illinois man, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for splattering 2 police officers with his blood and threatening to give them AIDS. The police were called to Murphy's apartment after receiving a report about an attempted suicide. Murphy pleaded guilty to attempted transmission of HIV in a plea bargain agreement, and the prosecutor dropped the more serious charge of attempted battery of a police officer. The officers show no sign of infection to date.
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