Panel debate on tracking HIV in New York state
A 24 member panel of doctors health care workers and AIDS activists in Albany debates whether New York should track HIV infections by listing names or using a coded system. The majority favors name based reporting while fearing that codes risk breaches and reduce testing. The panel notes confidential AIDS records exist but a new HIV positive database is not kept. The federal CDC recommends names and 28 states use them.
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New York
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Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Mark S. Rappaport
Yas Orr
Fisher seeks new trial in Long Island Lolita case
Amy Fisher known as the Long Island Lolita asked a judge for a new trial. Her lawyer Bruce Barker claimed the five year plea deal on an assault charge should be tossed. Prosecutor Denis Dillon offered the deal with a promise of parole after five years. Fisher was denied parole and not due for another review until June 1994. She pleaded guilty in 1992 to an assault tied to the near fatal shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco wife of her lover Joey Buttafuoco.
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New York
Amy Fisher
Long Island
Bruce A. Barker
Denis Dillon
Fisher
Mary Jo Buttafuoco
Joey Buttafuoco
Mason's lawyer jailed for contempt
Poughkeepsie authorities report the lawyer for C. Ver non Mason in the Tawana Brawley defamation case was jailed for contempt after disruptions during a court order. The ruling followed scolding of Mason's client for talking to reporters as Sharpton and Maddox face a pending suit by Steven Pagones.
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C. Vernon Mason
Tawan Brawley
Dutchess County
Handow
State Supreme Court
Barrett Hickman
Hickman
Jackson
Mason
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