{{Short description|American gridiron football player (born 1976)}} {{More footnotes needed|date=October 2015}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}
'''Trevis Smith''' (born September 8, 1976) is a former football linebacker who played seven years with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Smith was formerly a linebacker for the University of Alabama.
On October 28, 2005, Smith was charged with aggravated sexual assault in Surrey, BC for knowingly exposing women to HIV by having unprotected sex with them and not revealing his condition. Constable Marc Searle of the RCMP named a complainant called simply "A. O." who claimed that Smith had assaulted her between November 26, 2003, and May 18, 2005. After appearing in court in Surrey, he was freed on a C$10,000 bail after pleading "not guilty". On November 18, Smith was charged with the same offence in Regina, Saskatchewan after another woman came forward alleging that Smith did not tell her that he was HIV positive before they had unprotected sex.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/sports/football/story.html?id=7d232d78-0300-4940-9065-222d0c49440f&p=1 |title=Sports |publisher=Canada.com |accessdate=October 29, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151109021416/http://www.canada.com/sports/football/story.html?id=7d232d78-0300-4940-9065-222d0c49440f&p=1 |archivedate=November 9, 2015 }}</ref>
Smith was found guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual assault—one for each woman—and bail violations on February 8, 2007, and sentenced to 5{{frac|1|2}} years in jail on February 26, 2007; he unsuccessfully appealed the conviction.<ref>{{cite web |last=Leader |first=Regina |url=http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/story.html?id=a16dafb4-37ca-4cf1-bfd9-56b11658ec2b |title=Smith sentenced to six years |publisher=Canada.com |date=February 26, 2007 |accessdate=October 29, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192052/http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/story.html?id=a16dafb4-37ca-4cf1-bfd9-56b11658ec2b |archivedate=March 3, 2016 }}</ref>
Smith was released from prison on February 25, 2009, and was deported to the United States.<ref>[http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/more/01/15/cfl.player.hiv.parole.ap/index.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414192301/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/more/01/15/cfl.player.hiv.parole.ap/index.html |date=April 14, 2009 }}</ref> On August 18, 2012, it was reported that Smith was dismissed from his position as a high school football coach in Birmingham, Alabama, after the George Washington Carver High School learned of his conviction for aggravated sexual assault.<ref>{{cite news|title=Former Roughrider Trevis Smith fired from high school coaching job: Report|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/former-roughrider-trevis-smith-fired-from-high-school-coaching-job-report/article4488076/|accessdate=August 19, 2012|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=August 18, 2012|agency=Canadian Press}}</ref>
== See also == * Johnson Aziga * ''R. v. Cuerrier''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{cite news | first=Rick | last=Westhead | title=H.I.V. Debate Emerges in Canada | date=November 15, 2005 | url =https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/sports/football/15cfl.html | work =New York Times | accessdate = October 6, 2006}} * {{cite news| first=Jason| last=Warick| title=The secret life of Trevis Smith: Women speak out about Roughrider accused in HIV case| date=December 3, 2005| url=http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=dced6e21-bee4-4183-95d3-da83cf3a9ab2| work=CanWest News Service| accessdate=May 5, 2007| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025033214/http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=dced6e21-bee4-4183-95d3-da83cf3a9ab2| archivedate=October 25, 2012}} * [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ex-cfl-player-trevis-smith-gets-5-12-year-sentence/article1071035/ Ex-CFL player Trevis Smith gets 5½ years in jail for exposing 2 women to HIV] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927094400/http://www.saskatoonhomepage.ca/index.php?option=com_ezine&task=read&page=9&category=21&article=3975&Itemid=86 Delay in Smith Sentencing] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929105550/http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/local/story.html?id=c0eaefd2-8205-4b41-aa7a-77afb3ec734f Smith appeals sexual assault conviction] * [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/ex-girlfriend-accused-of-helping-trevis-smith-break-bail-1.642941 Ex-girlfriend accused of helping Trevis Smith break bail]
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