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Originally Posted by Gwennie!
There was a case on Long Island of a gay house guest killed by the gay host because the guest revealed his AIDS after the fact. The host was convicted but the guest was clearly comitting a crime.
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I have to agree--although not all the way to the host murdering the guest, although I clearly understand his motive, and I would call that manslaughter--that the guest was committing a crime. If you know you have AIDS, and sleep with someone anyway, without telling them--that, to me, is akin to premeditated attempted murder. What I mean by that is you KNOW you have a terminal illness that has no cure and you are exposing someone else to this illness on purpose. It's the same as if you cooked up some anthrax and diffused it over a city. Not everyone will get anthrax and die, but some will, and it will be because of you knowingly doing what you did.
Wolf:
First-Degree is premeditated--"malice aforethought" usually with aggravating circumstances;
Second-degree is without premeditation, but with some intent,
Sometimes first-or second-degree murder is called "Depraved-Heart murder" :the result of an act which is dangerous to others and shows that the perpetrator has a depraved mind and no regard for human life
and Third-degree is murder during the course of another felony;
Manslaughter can be voluntary or involuntary: voluntary is like "reckless disregard for human life" which can include vehicular homicide such as drunk driving...; involuntary is "heat of passion."
Hey, I finally got to use my criminal justice degree!! Whoohooo!!!
So technically, the host would probably be guilty of voluntary manslaughter, minimum...