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While Canadian Football League players head to training camps next spring, Trevis Smith will go to a Surrey, British Columbia, courtroom to face a charge of aggravated sexual assault.
Smith, 29, a linebacker with the Saskatchewan Roughriders who played in college at Alabama, is the first person--as far as the public knows--to play pro football while HIVp positive.
When the seven-year veteran was arrested in Regina, Saskatchewan, in October, B.C. Royal Canadian Mounted Police issued an unusual public warning: Anyone who had had sex with Smith should get tested for HIV and call the police. On November 17 Regina police arrested Smith on a second count of aggravated sexual assault, this time involving a Regina woman.
Canadian criminal law defines aggravated sexual assault as an incident in which such an act causes serious injury. The legal ...