the court therefore sustains the defense s objection to ov-12. it doesn t take long for the judge to affirm merithew s fears. he s removed from the cell that he s in. he s put into an isolation ward. he s told why that is happening, for his own safety because people are saying you ve put seminal fluids into foods you re sharing with other inmates, that you have the ability to have in your cell only because of your medical condition. if it s not true, why doesn t mr. merithew then have the absolute ability to say it s not true, i was just kidding around, ha ha, aren t i funny, or words to this effect, and then at least takes whatever affirmative steps he is capable of taking to stop this problem? really it can be most easily analogized to it s like shouting fire in a crowded theater. merithew will now be sentenced on three charges. two charges of failure to disclose hiv because he had both oral and anal sex with his partner. and use of a computer to commit a crime. the sente
can you seriously say that? yes. i don t think i m guilty of anything that harmed anybody. that s for sure. this law isn t about really harming people. i mean, the dude s a married man. he s out having unprotected sex with complete strangers online. if he hasn t encountered something before, he s very lucky. merithew could face up to 15 years in prison. and this isn t his first offense. two years earlier he was convicted of the same crime with a different man but only had to pay a fine. that guy, i don t know what his deal was, but he was hard of hearing, and we were drinking the night when we met. so i made sure he was aware the next morning. ironically, merithew says he contracted the virus from a man who did not disclose his own hiv positive status. do you feel like the person that gave you hiv, that they should have told you? i take 100% accountability for me being infected. i knew about aids since, like, eighth grade. and so i knew i was having unprotected sex even t
dying while i m in here now. i mean, because then that wouldn t be a good thing at all. so it makes me worry a lot about grandma s health. i m in here, there s nothing i can do to help her, unfortunately. coming up all s i ask is that you wear a condom. don t do it in our home and don t catch anything. pamala speckin takes an unconventional step to hold her family together. and because people are saying you ve put seminal fluids into foods you were sharing with other inmates jeremy merithew faces an angry judge on the day of his sentencing. so why accept it from your allergy pills? most pills don t finish the job because they don t relieve nasal congestion. flonase allergy relief is different. flonase relieves sneezing, itchy, watery eyes and a runny nose, plus nasal congestion, which pills don t. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances.
was high at the time. that s no excuse. so i take full responsibility. but merithew feels differently about his current case. i m taking half the responsibility, but i m not taking responsibility for anything that happens to his wife or anything that happens to his children because of the fact that he s out having unprotected sex. sounds a little bit like you re not taking responsibility. that s what it sounds like. okay. you know? i take responsibility. i should tell everybody that i have sex with that i m hiv positive. sometimes it doesn t happen. okay. i m sorry. i used to talk to him like as a friend. why? because i wanted to bring him the gospel. not because i want to mingle with him. because i don t condone his activities. ruben was the first one that kind of sought me out and basically because my case is kind of high-profile, it s on the news. so everybody knows my business. maybe i was a little bit attracted to him. but the thing is as i learned his personality
here you go. it s taken extremely seriously. i had medical come up and talk to the individuals that wanted to be talked to. we got some of the sandwiches that he had handed out, and they ll be tested. some of merithew s sandwiches were recovered from the trash. those would be sent to an outside lab for testing. while the jail s medical staff conducts blood tests on the inmates who ate the other sandwiches. gonorrhea, syphilis. the hiv virus seems to be the one they re least worried about because outside the body it doesn t live long. and if they come up positive, then that s up to the administration on what they want to do. i m only here on a misdemeanor charge. i don t want to go home with a life sentence. whether he said it joking or not, that s not a person that i d be liable to believe that it was just a joke. he was a menace to the world. that s why they convicted him and found him guilty. now he s still a menace to other people. whether i took the sandwich from him or n