Critically analyze the post of another student (post below) in the other group and post your analysis under that student’s thread.
Briefly summarize the student’s post and then critique and analyze the post commenting on what was well done and why, what is unclear and why, what is missing and why the commenting student feels it should have been included.
Did the student answer all the following questions pertaining to the case below:
1. State the elements of the statute Carole Bond was convicted of violating.
2. List all of Carole Bond’s acts and her intent relevant to deciding each of the elements of the crime.
3. Do you believe she violated the statute? Defend your answer.
4. Do you agree
What questions still remain? What did you not understand? Does this appear to be the student’s own words or just copying of information from the textbook?
Critique/Response Subsequent postings – In subsequent posts, the student is required to identify by first and last name the student whose post is being examined.
Students POST
Humberto Soto
Bond v. U.S.
Carole Bond was convicted of violating the Chemical Weapons Convention. She was charged with two counts of mail theft and two counts of possessing and using chemical weapons. Bond was found to have obtained illegally obtained chloro-phenoxarsine and a legally obtained vial of potassium dichromate. She then combined the mixture to create a toxic chemical. With the chemical created, she then went to the premises in which her well acquainted lived to spread the chemicals. The areas affected were calculated by Bond of having the highest likelihood of having Myrlinda Haynes come into physical contact with. She had stated that her intention in doing all this was to irritate Haynes in the form of chemicals that would potentially cause the development of an “uncomfortable rash”.
Bond’s motivation for her actions was due to her discovery that her friend Haynes was pregnant with Bond’s Husband. In finding Bond guilty of spreading toxic chemicals in Hayne’s home, she was charged with possessing and using chemical weapons. Bond was also recorded stealing mail from inside Hayne’s mailbox. Her intent was not explicitly revealed, it can be assumed that it was done to spite Hayne’s which lead to the mail theft charges. I do believe that Carole Bond violated the statute as it is stated. While the intent was never to kill, it was to cause bodily harm. The definition for chemical weapon describes using a toxic chemical to “cause death or other harm”. The harm was the physical injury Haynes experienced that was deliberately inflicted by Bond. These circumstances are what the statute deems as a violation.
