explosives that can be legal is after a man was cleared of terror related charges and 22 year old chaz copeland who was diagnosed with autism was arrested in 2018 are thought to making homemade bombs and conducting experimental explosions in his backyard he was initially charged with thinks counts of possessing information likely to be useful for an act of terrorism copeland was earlier handed a 22 month prison sentence but has now been cleared of the more serious terror charges as a matter of law personal experimentation and self education are lawful objects so we discuss the ruling with former police officer and lead to beckett university law school senior research david lowe and also a human rights lawyer so a car. obviously every case is different and we have to look at the facts of each case and this case the explosive substance that this 22 year old at that time perhaps even younger had made in in the unit in the garden shed in his house was just less than 10 grams of that substance my main question is why would anyone want to have explosives in the 1st place you know i look at it from fr

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explosives can be legal and after a man was cleared by the court of terror related charges 22 year old chaz copeland who was diagnosed with autism was a are. rested in $28000.00 after making homemade bombs and conducting experimental explosions and his back yard he was initially charged with 6 counts of possessing information likely to be useful for an act of terrorism copeland was handed a 22 month prison sentence but has now been cleared of the more serious terror charges supreme court judges have now ruled that copeland's actions were legal serving the purpose of personal experimentation and self education. now joining us live now to discuss this further and break down all the subtleties is senior research fellow at leeds beckett university law school and former police officer david low and human rights lawyer now if we could go ahead and start with you isn't this a dangerous precedent to be set the idea that experiment thing with explosives is illegal. no i don't think so in fact as the supreme court said this isn't an entirely new concept in any event obviously they went through the laws as we