Court Case: Love Kills

   The U.S Supreme Court has ruled that a woman accused of trying to poison her romantic rival because she found out that her friend was pregnant but she found out that she got pregnant from her husband. She has stand to challenge Congress' power to enact the law used to prosecute her. This woman's name is Carol Anne Bond.
   The Supreme Court allowed Carol Anne Bond's 10th amendment challenge in a unanimous opinion by Judge Anthony M. Kennedy.
   Bond was prosecuted under a federal law that passed to comply with a treaty aimed at preventing the spread of chemical weapons. Bond had alleged the treaty could not be a source of power to prevent her conduct.
   The Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled, Bond had n standing to challenge the law as an infringement of power reserved to the states when there was no state involved in the proceedings.
   The SUpreme COurt diagreed. "fidelity to princples of federalism is not for the states alone to vindicate," Kennedy wrote.
   As a result Bond was pleaded guilty by judge and was accused of stealing a dangerous chemical from the company where she worked as a lab technition and was given a 6 year sentence and a huge fine.