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Student convicted with spreading HIV
The Associated Press
HURON, S.D. — A college student was ordered Thursday to spend 120 days in jail for having sex with his girlfriend without revealing that he had the AIDS virus.
Nikko Briteramos, 19, a basketball player at SiTanka-Huron University, was the first person convicted in South Dakota of intentionally exposing another to HIV.
Under a new state law, he could have faced up to 15 years in prison.
prison. Defense lawyer James Koch said Briteramos had been in a monogamous relationship with the victim for several months. The presentence report included a letter from the woman urging the judge not to imprison Briteramos, the lawyer said.
Circuit Judge Tim Dallas Tucker gave Briteramos a five-year suspended prison sentence and ordered him to spend 120 days in jail.
Britieramos also was ordered not to have unprotected intercourse without informing sex
"You did expose her to HIV. For a person that you love, that's not how you treat them."
Tim Dallas Tucker Circuitjudge
partners of his HIV and to perform 200 hours of community service.
service. Briteramos, of Chicago, apologized Thursday for his behavior.
given that I thought "I believe I'm capable of much better, and I intend to become a person who helps others." he said outside the courtroom.
Briteramos admitted having sex with the woman in his dorm room on April 13. The woman later tested negative for HIV.
Officials became alarmed in March when three people in Beadle County, including Briteramos, were diagnosed with HIV.
A fourth person was later found to have the virus.
Eventually, 237 people were tested for the AIDS virus because some of those who had tested positive for HIV reported having
several sex partners.
several sea parties.
Briterhamns' plea bargain kept the woman, identified only by the initials M.T. in court documents, from having to testify, said Mike Moore, Beadle County state's attorney.
He said he thought the sentence was adequate.
Britieramos apparently was in love with the victim and worried she would leave him if he told her about his infection, the judge said.
"This appeared to arise out of a loving relationship," Tucker said. However, he added, "You did expose her to HIV. For a person that you love, that's not how you treat them."
Tucker also ordered Briteramos to continue his education, adding that he would be freed from jail to attend classes and work.
Brad Smith, vice president of operations at the university, said its lawyers will now have to sort out Briteramos' status. "Given the ruling that education is required, I can't imagine that we'd turn our backs on him," Smith said.
Activists lobby studios for fair pay for prostitutes
The Associated Press
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The movie industry should compensate prostitutes, drug addicts and homeless people for forcing them from their neighborhoods during filming, activist groups say.
In a letter sent to 30 production companies working in Vancouver this year, the Housing Action Committee and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users argue that workers in other trades get compensated for lost wages if film production disrupts their work sites.
"Sex trade workers must be compensated for displacement they experience at your hands in the same manner you would compensate a business if you were to use their locale during operating hours," the letter said.
"The same must hold true for homeless people you push from beneath a bridge or doorway and drug users you move from a park."
"Sex trade workers must be compensated for displacement they experience at your hands in the same manner you would compensate a business if you were to use their locale during operating hours."
Letter from the Housing Action Committee and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Production companies pay federal, provincial and municipal taxes and fees to film in Canada but the activist groups want the film industry to negotiate directly with residents.
Housing committee member Chris Livingstone said Wednesday that he lives on the streets, so "film companies are invading my life when they take over these
streets."
"We are demanding the compensation for displacement and inconvenience that the industry recognizes are due to us," he said in a news release.
Robert Weppler, a spokesman for the groups, said the compensation was not charity.
"The downtown eastside is a compelling place to shoot because it has a gritty look which really shows a lot but it also is a sensitive area and production companies are aware of that," said Lindsay Allen, head of the commission.
Productions worth more than $1 billion Canadian ($650 million U.S.) are filmed each year in Vancouver, according to the British Columbia Film Commission.
Government taxes and fees contribute to funding for social programs in the area, he said.
Film companies make large donations to local shelters and food banks and regularly donate food and clothing left over from filming, Allen said.
Sex and violence missing from Denver's 'Clean Flicks'
The Associated Press
DENVER A video store chain that edits profanity, violence and sex from films asked a judge Thursday to rule the practice is legal, despite protests by such directors as Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg.
Clean Flicks of Colorado, a franchise of Utah-based Clean Flicks, filed the lawsuit in federal court after learning from the Directors Guild of America Website that Sydney Pollack, Robert Altman, Steven Soderbergh and 13 other directors planned to seek an injunction against the
Redford
Spielberg
practice.
"The lawsuit was an option we were considering, but we never committed to filing one," Levy said Thursday.
Directors Guild spokesman Andrew Levy said the guild has taken no legal action and that the information should not have been posted on the Web site.
The company said the edited tapes are marked with a disclaimer that the film was edited for content, and the number of original versions matches the number of edited versions.
Korey Smitheram, who owns Clean Flicks of Colorado with two others, said the stores would not carry a film if excessive editing were required to meet the stores' criteria.
Smitheram and his partners
"There are some movies where we mute one or two words in the whole show. Has the movie been completely damaged and no one will get a feeling of what the director was trying to prove? I don't think so," he said.
Korey Smitheram
Clean Flicks of Colorado
"There are some movies where we mute one or two words in the whole show.Has the movie been completely damaged and no one will get a feeling of what the director was trying to prove? I don't think so."
own seven stores in Colorado, Idaho and Utah. There are about 70 Clean Flicks stores nationwide.
He said the lawsuit was filed to make sure the Colorado group had a chance to argue its case.
"The directors probably never wanted to take it that far, but we wanted to have our day in court to decide the legality of this," he said.
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