Dear Editor,
It remains a mystery to me why we are still expressing angst about Nesta Carter’s reported positive 2008 B sample vis-à-vis our gold medals won then. This is a non-issue comparable to attempting to foment a category 5 hurricane in a thimble.
I am no lawyer, but it is a common-sense principle and a baseline criminal law principle I gather that “where a law does not exist, neither can a crime”.
If the stimulant in question was not on the prohibited list in 2008, nobody can now charge a breach of that non-existent prohibition in 2008. Our gold medals are not in question here as all retroactive legislation can be easily and successfully challenged because such is unjust and immoral.
Clinton Chisholm (Rev)
clintchis@yahoo.com
It remains a mystery to me why we are still expressing angst about Nesta Carter’s reported positive 2008 B sample vis-à-vis our gold medals won then. This is a non-issue comparable to attempting to foment a category 5 hurricane in a thimble.
I am no lawyer, but it is a common-sense principle and a baseline criminal law principle I gather that “where a law does not exist, neither can a crime”.
If the stimulant in question was not on the prohibited list in 2008, nobody can now charge a breach of that non-existent prohibition in 2008. Our gold medals are not in question here as all retroactive legislation can be easily and successfully challenged because such is unjust and immoral.
Clinton Chisholm (Rev)
clintchis@yahoo.com