Crimes involving illicit love triangles, revenge,
poisoned doors and a treaty on chemical weapons typically aren't the Supreme
Court's bailiwick. But on Tuesday, the justices sifted through the details of
an unusual case in which international law was used to convict a jilted wife.
Carol Anne Bond, from Lansdale, Pa., is accused of
spreading highly toxic chemicals on a doorknob, car door and mailbox in a
failed attempt to poison her husband's pregnant lover, who also was her best
friend....... U.S. Postal inspectors arrested Bond, and a federal grand jury
indicted her on two counts of possessing and using a "chemical
weapon" in violation of a treaty the U.S. signed in 1997 that seeks to ban
the spread of chemical weapons around the globe.
Bond, who pleaded guilty, got a six-year prison term —
three times the sentence she could have received if the state had prosecuted
her...... Justice Anthony Kennedy told Solicitor General Donald Verrilli that
it "seems unimaginable that you would bring this prosecution."……. But
Verrilli insisted that if the federal government entered into a valid treaty,
language in that law can be used domestically for cases normally handled by
local or state authorities. To Read More....
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