Smith's wife testifies in aggravated sexual assault trial
Last Updated: Friday, February 2, 2007 | 6:05 PM CT
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A former Saskatchewan Roughrider on trial for aggravated sexual assault must now wait for a judge's decision after lawyers made final arguments and his wife testified on Friday.
Regina Judge Kenn Bellerose reserved his decision in the case of Trevis Smith to Feb. 8.
The Crown entered into evidence this 2004 photograph of Smith with the alleged victim from B.C.
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Tamika Smith told Bellerose about an angry confrontation she had with one of Trevis Smith's sex partners.
"How do you pretend to be my friend when you're effing my husband?" Tamika Smith said she asked a B.C. woman after learning of the sexual relationship.
Trevis Smith is accused of having unprotected sex with two women — one from Regina and the other from Surrey, B.C. — without telling them he was infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Their names are protected by a publication ban.
The alleged victim from B.C. is the woman Tamika Smith said she knew well.
Initially, they were quite good friends, Smith said.
However, she said, she thought it was odd that the woman came to Regina in 2004 to surprise Trevis Smith on his birthday.
The two women spoke again a year later, but by that point, Smith had already told his wife that he and the B.C. woman were more than friends.
That was when Tamika Smith said she berated the woman for having sex with her husband.
Her testimony contradicted part of Wednesday's testimony by the B.C. woman, who said Smith didn't tell her he was married.
The woman also said she had been involved in a sexual relationship with Smith that lasted several years and ended in the spring of 2005. Tamika Smith said the woman knew all along that Smith was married.
Smiths' relationship described as rough
Tamika Smith also talked about her husband, with whom she has two daughters.
She described the relationship as rough, and said they have spent much of their marriage apart.
On Thursday, Trevis Smith said after he tested positive for HIV in 2003, he always used condoms during sex.
Each of the alleged victims told court that while he used condoms earlier in their relationships, he later used no protection.
In her final arguments, defence lawyer Marie-Helene Giroux told the court that although Smith might be considered "frivolous, a man who has had many women," that doesn't mean he committed any crimes.
Giroux argued that Smith was credible when he said he always used a condom after learning he was HIV-positive.
However, Crown prosecutor Bill Burge suggested that Smith tried to conceal the sexual relationship he had with the alleged victim from B.C. and said Smith's story generally isn't credible.
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The Crown entered into evidence this 2004 photograph of Smith with the alleged victim from B.C.
