Supreme Court throws out conviction on chemical weapons charge
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Monday
in Bond v. United States [SCOTUSblog backgrounder] that prosecutors
cannot use an international chemical weapons treaty to convict a woman
who attacked her husband's lover. Carol Anne Bond attempted to poison
the woman by applying two toxic chemicals to her mailbox, car door
handles and house doorknob. She was then convicted under the Chemical
Weapons Convention Implementation Act [18 USC § 229 text], a federal law
that enforces the...
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