Chicago Prosecutors Drop AIDS Transmission Case
<i> United Press International</i>
CHICAGO —
Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges of criminal transmission of AIDS against a transsexual who allegedly bit one Chicago policeman and scratched another. Attorneys for the defendant, Olivia St. John, said the charges were the first brought under a state law forbidding willful transmission through intimate contact.
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