Throw Away the Key? New York May Keep Sex Offender Behind Bars After Prison Term
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Nushawn Williams, a career sex offender who infected more than a dozen women with HIV, will continue to be kept behind bars even after the expiration of his 12-year prison sentence. (AP)
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- New York can continue its efforts to keep a sex offender who infected at least 13 women with the AIDS virus locked up beyond the 12-year prison sentence he completed in April.
A state Supreme Court judge in Buffalo refused a request by Nushawn Williams' lawyer to throw out the attorney general's case to have Williams held indefinitely under a civil-confinement law.
Defense attorney Daniel Grasso had argued that Williams isn't subject to that 3-year-old law because it was passed after he had finished a sentence for statutory rape and while he was serving time for reckless endangerment.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}But the judge agreed Monday with the state that sentences merge together in prison.
Williams' civil confinement trial is set for October.