SCOTUS Rules Woman Cannot Be Convicted Under Chemical Weapons Treaty
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
MARK SHERMAN JUNE 2, 2014, 12:05 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that prosecutors may not rely on an international chemical weapons treaty to convict a woman who attacked her husband's mistress.
The justices threw out the conviction of Carol Anne Bond of Lansdale, Pa., who was prosecuted under a 1999 law based on the chemical weapons treaty. Bond served a six-year prison term after being convicted of using toxicchemicals that caused a thumb burn on a friend who had become her husband's lover.
Chief Justice John Roberts said Pennsylvania laws are sufficient to deal with the threats posed by a woman in a love triangle.
"In sum, the global need to prevent chemical warfare does not require the Federal Government to reach into the kitchen cupboard, or to treat a local assault with a chemical irritant as the deployment of a chemical weapon," Roberts said.
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)History:
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/bond-v-united-states-2/
Washington Post article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-throws-out-conviction-based-on-chemical-weapons-ban/2014/06/02/8d73dfbc-ea65-11e3-93d2-edd4be1f5d9e_story.html?hpid=z3
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)The only thing I can do in response...
yellowcanine
(35,693 posts)Talk about overkill....
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)another_liberal
(8,821 posts)He has grossly overreached his authority by bringing a indictment like that. It's as bad as charging animal rights activists or logging protesters as "terrorists."