Charged under a 1998 chemical-weapons law

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Court affirms use of chemical terrorism law against Lansdale woman

It's said that if something looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, the odds are it's a duck.
Not always. And sometimes imitation carries its own hazards, as Carol-Anne Bond learned yesterday when a federal appeals court affirmed - under a federal chemical-terrorism law - her conviction for trying to poison her romantic rival.

Bond, 38, of Lansdale, was arrested by federal authorities in June 2007 and charged under a 1998 chemical-weapons law for applying highly toxic chemicals on the mailbox, car door, and front house door of a close friend and romantic rival, Myrlinda Haynes. Haynes had had a baby fathered by Bond's husband, Clifford.

Bond's attorney, Robert E. Goldman, had argued that Bond's messy personal situation did not justify federal charges under the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998.

The law, he said, was meant to prosecute terrorists - not scorned spouses.

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Court affirms use of chemical terrorism law against Lansdale woman | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/18/2009