The State - News from July 29, 1987

A federal appeals court in St. Louis has upheld the assault convictions of an AIDS victim from California who attacked three guards, biting one, at the U.S. Medical Center for Prisoners in Springfield, Mo. David Kazenbach, 26, of San Francisco, attacked the guards while serving an eight-year sentence for bank robbery. He had been assigned to a special unit in Springfield for prisoners with AIDS. Assistant U.S. Atty. David Jones said he did not know whether the guard bitten by Kazenbach would contract AIDS. He said the bite had drawn blood and that the guard would have to undergo testing for the disease for seven years. Kazenbach said he resisted the guards only to protect himself. But the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected that argument, noting that one guard was assaulted inside the prisoner’s cell and that the others were attacked later.