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Background: Cleveland Brodie (far left) sits astatine the defence array during his enslaved proceeding (WAGA); Inset: Brodie booking photograph (Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office)
The enslaved proceeding for a Georgia antheral accused of intentionally giving women the AIDS virus, including his precocious wife, got testy astatine times.
Cleveland Brodie, who is successful his aboriginal 60s, sat astatine the defence array with his lawyer connected Monday arsenic helium waited to perceive if helium would look a higher enslaved amount. The authorities argued that enslaved should beryllium denied for Brodie, and they brought respective members of the household of his wife, Denise Brodie — who died 2 days aft she was diagnosed with AIDS that her household believed was fixed to her by Cleveland Brodie — to springiness statements successful court.
The defence lawyer had respective objections.
Local Fox affiliate WAGA was in the courtroom to seizure the proceeding wherever the authorities argued that Cleveland Brodie was a information to the community. They wanted enslaved to beryllium denied and had Denise Brodie’s daughter, Tammy Hammonds, present a connection successful which she said that she and her household were “gravely acrophobic for the public’s safety.” She besides accused Cleveland Brodie of exhibiting “reckless disregard for the wellness and information of others by knowingly surviving with and allegedly exposing others to HIV without disclosure.”
The defence lawyer objected, saying that the indictment brought against his lawsuit was not evidence. The justice allowed the connection to continue.
The adjacent to talk astatine the proceeding was a victim-witness advocator from the Rockdale County District Attorney’s Office, who work a connection from 1 of Cleveland Brodie’s alleged victims.
Again, the defence lawyer objected, saying that grounds had to travel from the existent witnesser oregon other immoderate the advocator said was conscionable hearsay. It was explained by the authoritative that the witness, an alleged unfortunate named successful the indictment, did not privation to talk publicly. Again, the justice allowed the connection to continue.
Finally, Denise Brodie’s brother, Jimmie Suber, took the basal and stated that Cleveland Brodie was “a information to women.” Cleveland Brodie’s defence lawyer objected, saying, “He does not cognize that.”
Several times, Cleveland Brodie’s defence lawyer claimed that Denise Brodie did not dice of AIDS, but of antithetic wellness complications. The authorities argued that those complications were owed to AIDS, which Denise Brodie was diagnosed with 2 days earlier she died. On the stand, Suber told the defence attorney, “She died of AIDS.”
After Suber concluded his connection requesting that Cleveland Brodie beryllium denied bond, the defence lawyer piped up and said, “I person immoderate questions.” Suber responded, “I person answers.”
What followed was an statement astir however Cleveland Brodie was allegedly not conscionable careless astir his HIV, helium was besides allegedly careless astir different infectious viruses and would reportedly not deterioration a disguise to support his cancer-surviving woman from COVID-19. As the statement devolved, the defence lawyer asked Suber, “Do you cognize if they had sex?”
Suber responded that yes, helium knew, to which the defence lawyer responded by asking, “You were determination erstwhile they had sex?” Suber responded that Cleveland Brodie erstwhile told him that helium and Denise Brodie had not had enactment for implicit a year. He added, “They'[d] been joined for however galore years, sir?”
The justice past stopped the heated speech to present her determination — she raised Cleveland Brodie’s enslaved to $800,000, ordered him to proceed taking prescribed HIV medicine and disallowed him from having immoderate intersexual relationships portion awaiting trial.
Cleveland Brodie has pleaded not blameworthy to each charges against him, including malice execution and felony murder.
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