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This panel examines the continued criminalization of HIV and other health status, the undermining of the central principle that criminal intent be required for criminal liability, and efforts to reform these discriminatory laws.
20th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference August 18-20, 2021 | Held Virtually
NACDL opposes all laws that base criminal liability and/or penalty enhancements on one’s HIV status rather than on the intent to harm another individual. NACDL supports the repeal of such criminal laws as fundamentally unfair and unjust. Recognizing that outright repeal can result in the abusive use of existing statutes, NACDL also supports modernization of these criminal laws to incorporate strong principles of intent and proportional punishment.
Brief of The Center for HIV Law & Policy, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al. in Support of Petitioner (on petition for writ of certiorari).
