A State Supreme Court justice ruled this afternoon that there is probable cause that

Nushawn Williams should remain jailed because the HIV-positive man is a threat to society.

Justice John L. Michalski determined the state presented enough evidence to sustain

probable cause that Williams, whom authorities say infected at least 13 young women with the

HIV virus, has a sexual mental abnormality, is a sex offender and a danger to the community.

That ruling set the stage for a civil trial, scheduled to begin Oct. 12, on the question of

whether Williams should be placed under the care of the state's civil confinement law.

In the meantime, Michalski is considering a motion by Daniel P. Grasso, the attorney

representing Williams, to dismiss the state attorney general's overall case against the

33-year-old former Jamestown resident and New York City native.

A hearing to argue that motion is set for June 22. Williams, authorities claim,

intentionally infected young women with HIV, the virus that causes AIDs, in the 1990s.

He just completed a 12-year prison sentence for rape and reckless endangerment, in

connection with spreading HIV, and remains locked up at Wende Correctional Facility in Alden.