DES MOINES – The Iowa Court of Appeals has granted a new hearing to a man who was sent to prison 12 years ago for having sex with teen boys while he knew he had HIV.
In 2005, Guy Sudduth – now 52-years-old and formerly of Cedar Falls but now calling a Fort Madison prison his home – entered Alford pleas to two counts of criminal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus and three counts of third-degree sexual abuse. He was given up to 80 years in prison for exposing teen boys to HIV. In 2014, Sudduth filed a postconviction relief application alleging his plea lacked a factual basis and his attorney was ineffective in allowing him to enter the plea and in failing “to complete a competent investigation.” The district court dismissed the application as time-barred.
Sudduth appealed, and the appeals court last week concluded Sudduth has asserted a ground of law that could not have been raised within the applicable time period. His application falls within the “ground of law” exception to the three-year time bar. Sudduth sought a remand for trial on his Application for Post-Conviction Relief. The court reversed the district court’s dismissal of the application and remanded for a postconviction relief hearing – meaning, a potential new trial.
4 thoughts on “Iowa man imprisoned for criminal transmission of HIV to teen boys gets new shot at freedom”
Hopefully the boys will get a shot at him now.
Scum bum – will be right back at it – crazy days and keep your piece clean.
Turn him loose and shoot him as he walks out the door.
This is someone family, he did wrong that doesn’t mean say things like that this isn’t 1800s anymore