"Tiger Mandingo," Who Got 30 Years For Not Telling Sex Partners He Had HIV, Is Free 25 Years Early
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BOONVILLE, Missouri — Michael Johnson, who was sentenced to an unprecedented 30.5 years for failing to disclose his HIV status to his sexual partners, was released today, 25 years early, after an appeals court condemned his original trial as "fundamentally unfair."
"I feel great," Johnson said with a big smile as he left Boonville Correctional Center on Tuesday, sweating in the intense Missouri heat. "Leaving prison is such a great feeling."
Handed a cellphone to call his parole officer, Johnson looked at it and said, "When you get arrested and have your phone taken away, you have dreams when you think your phone is ringing."
Johnson, a onetime college wrestler who was known online as "Tiger Mandingo," was arrested in October 2013 for "recklessly" transmitting HIV to two men and exposing four others to it. Johnson is black, and four of the six men were white. As chronicled in a BuzzFeed News investigation, his trial was racially charged, and jurors were shown images of his penis. Despite an absence of genetic fingerprinting to connect him to the other men's HIV strains, he was convicted of one of the two transmission cases and of all four exposure cases. The resulting sentence was longer than the state average for second-degree murder — though he is not accused of killing anyone.
In December 2016, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District overturned his conviction because prosecutors had waited until the last moment to disclose evidence. To avoid another trial, Johnson took a no-contest Alford plea deal and was later granted a suspended parole.
Since his arrest in 2013, Johnson's story has become a flashpoint in the debate about laws that criminalize HIV transmission. That year, medical scholars wrote that "empirical studies on the impact of these laws suggest that they do not decrease HIV infections or have any other positive public health impacts," and that anti-HIV laws may actually result in higher rates of transmission.
In the subsequent six years, the evidence on these points has grown — and the politics of HIV have shifted substantially toward an understanding of the role that race plays, in both who contracts HIV and who is prosecuted for transmitting it.
In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published research projecting that if current trends continue, 1 in every 2 black men who have sex with men in America would become HIV positive in their lifetimes — despite having "fewer partners and lower rates of recreational drug use than other gay men." Globally, a disproportionate number of the roughly 1 million people a year who die of AIDS are black.
Laws have changed, too. In California in 2017, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that reduced knowingly exposing someone to HIV to a misdemeanor. And in North Carolina last year, activists successfully lobbied to bring that state's HIV laws in line with scientific findings, reflecting, for example, that people who are properly medicated cannot transmit the virus.
In the state where Johnson was convicted, the Missouri HIV Justice Coalition introduced HB167 to modernize the state's HIV laws. Written by a Republican legislator, the bill would have reduced punishment for knowingly transmitting HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor and would have taken into account factors such as whether the accused used a condom or was taking medication.
The bill didn't pass, but it picked up an unlikely ally: Timothy Lohmar, the prosecuting attorney whose office had tried Johnson and asked the jury for a life sentence.
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In support of the proposed legislation, Lohmar testified that he "had a case a few years ago that got a lot of national attention, and it wasn't in a good way," which he found "embarrassing." He said, "I was hamstrung in a sense because I was forced to operate under the current laws that we now have. Which I would agree are antiquated, outdated, and based upon something that science would prove is not accurate," such as the possibility that someone with an undetectably low viral level could infect someone else.
The bill's sponsors say they will try again to get it passed in the next legislative session.
Told that the prosecuting attorney who handled his case is now lobbying to update Missouri's HIV laws, Johnson said, "Maybe my trial did happen in some way to motivate some change."
Johnson, looking healthy and well, was released from prison with an 11-day supply of HIV medication. He was met by two friends, Meredith Rowan and Akil Patterson, who drove him to Indianapolis, where Johnson will serve three years of parole and live with Rowan's family.
"It's good I had the support of everyone who wrote me letters," he said. "There are times when you get down, and it helps that people knew why I was fighting the system."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/steventhrasher/tiger-mandingo-who-got-30-years-for-not-telling-sex
https://www.queerty.com/college-wrestler-sentenced-30-years-hiv-case-released-prison-winning-appeal-20190709
Hope everyone learnt their lessons from this.
Why did they show his dick during the trial anyway? :uhh:
Not showing his dick!
:overit:
They tried it
!!!
They stay hyper-sexualising black men, and if the trial was racially charged as they say...
Of course he feels great, he infected the whole prison and is back in his way to infect more
I'm sorry but I believe in castration. Some ppl are nasty af
Quote from: Yea. I'm Back. on July 09, 2019, 04:55:32 PM
Of course he feels great, he infected the whole prison and is back in his way to infect more
I'm sorry but I believe in castration. Some ppl are nasty af
Did he purposely infect the victims?
Quote from: Yea. I'm Back. on July 09, 2019, 04:55:32 PM
Of course he feels great, he infected the whole prison and is back in his way to infect more
I'm sorry but I believe in castration. Some ppl are nasty af
Well they didn't trace the infections back to him either way
They should retest all of them
:letsmessfag:
Ack!
Whew, and he was probably up in prison lacing the gorls the fuck up
Quote from: animmai. on July 09, 2019, 04:59:47 PM
Whew, and he was probably up in prison lacing the gorls the fuck up
jkjjjjjkkkkikki
gfgfd they would've made him take medication in prison to prevent further infectiosn
Quote from: animmai. on July 09, 2019, 04:59:47 PM
Whew, and he was probably up in prison lacing the gorls the fuck up
ssssssss
Baybee... if they wasn't sitting on death row before he got there ... they is now .... wooo!
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:stressed: i used to think he was cute...
these case notes are really interesting
so he basically said he told all his partners, they all said he didn't, but in a leaked phone call from when he was arrested he said he was pretty sure his did, and they used that illegal recording to convict him, and then they couldn't trace any of the 2 infections back to him either
and the images they were using of him, pictures of his dick cumming, the words the white "victims" used to describe his dick....
gays are disgusting.
Quote from: Yea. I'm Back. on July 09, 2019, 05:03:24 PM
Quote from: animmai. on July 09, 2019, 04:59:47 PM
Whew, and he was probably up in prison lacing the gorls the fuck up
ssssssss
Baybee... if they wasn't sitting on death row before he got there ... they is now .... wooo!
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:plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on July 09, 2019, 05:29:09 PM
Quote from: Yea. I'm Back. on July 09, 2019, 05:03:24 PM
Quote from: animmai. on July 09, 2019, 04:59:47 PM
Whew, and he was probably up in prison lacing the gorls the fuck up
ssssssss
Baybee... if they wasn't sitting on death row before he got there ... they is now .... wooo!
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:plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
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Quote from: FlowerBomb on July 09, 2019, 05:07:18 PM
these case notes are really interesting
so he basically said he told all his partners, they all said he didn't, but in a leaked phone call from when he was arrested he said he was pretty sure his did, and they used that illegal recording to convict him, and then they couldn't trace any of the 2 infections back to him either
and the images they were using of him, pictures of his dick cumming, the words the white "victims" used to describe his dick....
wow that's..... crazy.
White people are fucking sick and I hope he kill off more white faggots
Quote from: Cheetah. on July 09, 2019, 05:57:00 PM
Quote from: FlowerBomb on July 09, 2019, 05:07:18 PM
these case notes are really interesting
so he basically said he told all his partners, they all said he didn't, but in a leaked phone call from when he was arrested he said he was pretty sure his did, and they used that illegal recording to convict him, and then they couldn't trace any of the 2 infections back to him either
and the images they were using of him, pictures of his dick cumming, the words the white "victims" used to describe his dick....
wow that's..... crazy.
White people are fucking sick and I hope he kill off more white faggots
cxvvxvdvdfd I don't think he even gave it to those faggots, not with their sexual history
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If this is the victim, he def already had it.
I'm so blessed people can't google my name and not see shit like this. This would be a nightmare.
something you wanna tell us 'eek?
:shook:
Quote from: Reek X on July 09, 2019, 06:03:59 PM
I'm so blessed people can't google my name and not see shit like this. This would be a nightmare.
:ummwhat:
They were all white????
gorl thank god they freed him. Fucking bug chasing ass crackers wanted it
Quote from: BrokenHeartsHeal on July 09, 2019, 08:57:22 PM
They were all white????
gorl thank god they freed him. Fucking bug chasing ass crackers wanted it
... oh wait... :omgwatshappening: Aids King
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1 in every 2
Who the hell are they polling?
Quote from: Yea. I'm Back. on July 09, 2019, 09:10:37 PM
ssssssssss
1 in every 2
Who the hell are they polling?
If you've seen any of the threads about Aids/HIV since you've been gone and the comments from some members you'd kinda see how its possible.
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Quote from: Twitter User on July 09, 2019, 09:09:01 PM
Quote from: Freeruu on July 09, 2019, 04:43:42 PM
In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published research projecting that if current trends continue, 1 in every 2 black men who have sex with men in America would become HIV positive in their lifetimes — despite having "fewer partners and lower rates of recreational drug use than other gay men." Globally, a disproportionate number of the roughly 1 million people a year who die of AIDS are black.
Give em the truth. :butwait!:
The 50/50 mess is very REAL. Doesn't make gay Black men more slutty though.
The stats are nothing to be embarrassed about or shy away from.
The more gorls who embrace this , the better. It's real in those streets.
So basically if a person use a condom, they will still get.
:hmph:
Quote from: animmai. on July 09, 2019, 04:59:47 PM
Whew, and he was probably up in prison lacing the gorls the fuck up
Jfndidndjd
So basically 1 in every 2 gay black men doesn't wear condoms
or 1 in every 2 gay black will just randomly get it?
White People are the majority race and I'm supposed to believe with Black People accounting for 12% of US population, Black Men probably around 6% that Gay Black Men are the face of HIV/AIDS based on accurate information?
Why is there an AIDS seminar happening in this thread?
:calmdownsis:
:melmel:
But Twitter User, I heard you about the healthcare problem but that's not really answering the question.
Quote from: Reek X on July 09, 2019, 09:23:25 PM
So basically 1 in every 2 gay black men doesn't wear condoms
or 1 in every 2 gay black will just randomly get it?
So basically you don't know.
Quote from: Twitter User on July 09, 2019, 09:53:04 PM
Basically you're still in your feelings over some Cardi B mess and bringing into a serious discussion.
Go stream Press. You probably have AIDS already.
Jchdjdjdjdmfkfjfjfkffffffcf
The hell
Quote from: Twitter User on July 09, 2019, 09:53:04 PM
Go stream Press. You probably have AIDS already.
:plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
Quote from: Twitter User on July 09, 2019, 09:53:04 PM
Basically you're still in your feelings over some Cardi B mess and bringing into a serious discussion.
Go stream Press. You probably have AIDS already.
wtf
Quote from: Mount Everest. on July 09, 2019, 09:58:54 PM
Quote from: Twitter User on July 09, 2019, 09:53:04 PM
Basically you're still in your feelings over some Cardi B mess and bringing into a serious discussion.
Go stream Press. You probably have AIDS already.
wtf
:guys:
Reek didn't deserve that
Yes it did
I just ate some ass this evening :stressed:
Quote from: EXPENSIVE DICK on July 09, 2019, 10:32:24 PM
Reek didn't deserve that
It's all fun and love. I'm very big on my health so I don't let stuff like that get to me.
I was asking but clearly he didn't have the answer. I don't think Fro ever touched a man before but he will be ok.
S
Have you?
Fro is really taking a lot of low blows. All I did was ask a question and got called simple minded, AIDED, and I'm mad at him because of a Cardi debate and now he is a dictionary. It's ok because I'm just observing.
No I really wanted to know
Quote from: Reek X on July 09, 2019, 11:00:03 PM
Fro is really taking a lot of low blows. All I did was ask a question and got called simple minded, AIDED, and I'm mad at him because of a Cardi debate and now he is a dictionary. It's ok because I'm just observing.
[youtube autoplay=1]https://youtube.com/watch?v=gIuotFZnBtk[/youtube]
Quote from: Twitter User on July 09, 2019, 09:53:04 PM
Basically you're still in your feelings over some Cardi B mess and bringing into a serious discussion.
Go stream Press. You probably have AIDS already.
:plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
Quote from: Yea. I'm Back. on July 09, 2019, 09:10:37 PM
ssssssssss
1 in every 2
Who the hell are they polling?
well stats are based on past and current trends and behaviours, but those change all the time, so they probably hold merit, but then you have to factor that black test more and consistently than whites so that's a good thing and wasn't their another survey resulting in whites testing up to 40% or something less than blacks?
They're mess would probably be about the same given their large population and current "Prep culture"
And I don't think they're counting those blacks who are HIV+ but are on medication and and unable to pass on the virus either
https://www.instagram.com/p/BztCB_thnQc/