ALBANY — Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo’s office is moving to block the release of Nushawn J. Williams, the Brooklyn man who was believed to have knowingly infected a number of young women and girls in upstate New York with H.I.V. in a highly publicized case more than a decade ago.
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Mr. Williams, 33, was due to be released on Tuesday after serving his maximum sentence of 12 years, but Mr. Cuomo’s office is seeking to keep him in custody under a state law that permits the civil confinement of sex offenders. Last Friday, a state judge in Buffalo, near where Mr. Williams has been jailed, ordered that he remain in custody pending the outcome of a civil confinement hearing.
A long-term resolution to Mr. Williams’s status is likely to be determined at a civil jury trial, which will decide whether he suffers from a mental abnormality that requires confinement at a psychiatric facility or parole under intensive supervision.
Mr. Williams, a drifter with a history as a gang member and a drug dealer, once boasted in a television interview of having sex with 200 to 300 women over a wide swath of the state. He served a 12-year sentence after pleading guilty to charges of statutory rape and two counts of reckless endangerment for knowingly infecting two girls with the AIDS virus.
An official at Mental Hygiene Legal Services, which will most likely be representing Mr. Williams, was not immediately available.
A long-term resolution to Mr. Williams’s status is likely to be determined at a civil jury trial, which will decide whether he suffers from a mental abnormality that requires confinement at a psychiatric facility or parole under intensive supervision.
Mr. Williams, a drifter with a history as a gang member and a drug dealer, once boasted in a television interview of having sex with 200 to 300 women over a wide swath of the state. He served a 12-year sentence after pleading guilty to charges of statutory rape and two counts of reckless endangerment for knowingly infecting two girls with the AIDS virus.
An official at Mental Hygiene Legal Services, which will most likely be representing Mr. Williams, was not immediately available.
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