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Statutory interpretation is the process of interpreting and applying legislation. Some amount of interpretation is always necessary when case involves a statute. Sometimes the words of a statute have...
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The rule of lenity is commonly thought of as the ancient canon of statutory construction which directs that ambiguities in penal statutes be construed in favor of the defendant.
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You are the Rule of Lenity! You interpret ambiguities in penal statutes in favor of the accused. You're a laid-back kind of rule and concerned with not being too quick to judge. You're soft on crime. (20% of people had this result.)
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Santos and Diaz also rely on the rule of lenity, which instructs that ambiguity in the meaning of a statute should be resolved in favor of the defendant. ... See Brief for Santos at 29 – 30, (citing, inter alia, U.S. v. R.L.C., 503 U.S. 291 (1992)). According to the rule of lenity, courts are not supposed to interpret...
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When the legislature enumerates an exception to a rule, one can infer that there are no other exceptions. ... The Rule of Lenity: in construing an ambiguous criminal statute, a court should resolve the ambiguity in favor of the defendant.
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This post at SCOTUSblog reporting on the filing of two new amicus briefs in support of cert in a rule of lenity case had me recalling some famed pro-wrestling tag teams. Here are the details: "[T]wo cert.-stage amicus briefs were filed [in support of the defendants in Kay v. US, No.
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The rule of lenity, under which “ambiguous penal statutes are construed in favor of defendants[,] is inapplicable unless two reasonable interpretations of the same provision stand in relative equipoise, i.e., that resolution of the statute’s ambiguities in a convincing manner ... Criminal Law Appeals-Lenity Rule...
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