Published January 14, 2015
A defense lawyer for a woman convicted of trying to harm a romantic rival said his client was wrongly prosecuted under a chemical-weapon law aimed at terrorists, not housewives.
Lawyer Robert Goldman argued his appeal Monday of the six-year sentence being served by Carol Anne Bond of Lansdale.
The former Rohm & Haas laboratory technician admitted she left deadly chemicals on the victim's front door handle and in her car's tail pipe. The victim — her husband's one-time mistress — was not injured.
Goldman told the federal appeals court that the statute is flawed and was also misapplied to Bond's case.
U.S. prosecutors said the crime is appropriately a federal concern.
The judges did not indicate when they will rule.
https://www.foxnews.com/story/attorney-charge-misapplied-in-wifes-attack-on-romantic-rival