Abstract
A court acquitted a former chemistry professor at Henderson State University (HSU) after a jury found him not guilty of making methamphetamine. The jury in Clark County District Court in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, said Oct. 27 that it had reasonable doubt about the charges against Terry David Bateman. In November 2019, police arrested Bateman and Bradley Allen Rowland , now also a former HSU chemistry professor, whose trial is scheduled for this month. They were charged with making methamphetamine, possession of phenylpropanolamine—a precursor of methamphetamine—and manufacturing a controlled substance in a drug-free zone. Both pleaded not guilty. In court, Rowland testified against Bateman, describing the process the two used to make methamphetamine and a timeline of events, according to local news coverage of the trial. Rowland claimed that in 2014, Bateman told him and other professors that he had found enough phenylacetic acid, a key ingredient in the synthesis of the
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