Gurumurthy Kalyanaram - This is an interesting case. Carol Bond’s husband was infidel. Based on this fact, Bond could have filed a lawsuit against her husband and/or his mistress, including a divorce petition. There could have been a myriad causes of action – some colorable and others robust – for potential lawsuit by Bond. But, instead, Bond tried to get even with her husband’s mistress, Myrlinda Haynes. She tried to poison her husband’s mistress “by spreading chemicals on (among other things) her doorknob, causing only a minor burn that was easily treated with water.” Bond spread “two toxic chemicals on Haynes's car, mailbox, and door knob in hopes that Haynes would develop an uncomfortable rash.”
Here is where it gets interesting. Instead of treating this as a simple case of assault, the US filed a criminal complaint/lawsuit against Bond under the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 229.
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