Though it was “questionable” that a spurned spouse’s alleged revenge plot became the subject of a federal prosecution under the law banning the use of chemical weapons, a federal appeals court declines to find the Chemical Weapons Act unconstitutional as applied.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed Carol Anne Bond’s conviction under the act, which was passed by Congress in 1998 to implement rules agreed upon by an international convention five years earlier.
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