State v. White

Introduction

Daniel White (“Defendant”) appeals from a conviction for knowingly exposing another person to HIV. 1 He claims three points on appeal. First, Defendant claims the trial court plainly erred in submitting Jury Instructions Five and Six patterned after MAI-CR 332.80. Second, Defendant alleges that the trial court plainly erred in allowing the prosecutor to improperly argue that the jurors imagine what it was like for a nineteen year old woman to find out she was HIV positive and had been exposed unknowingly by a man she loved. Third, Defendant contends that the trial court plainly…