Blake v. Shoemaker

How courts have described this case

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• observing that lenity applies “in cases where the [legislature’s] intention is not distinctly perceived,” such that “the mind balances and hesitates between . . . two constructions”
• observing that lenity applies “in cases where the [legislature’s] intention is not distinctly perceived,” such that “the mind balances and hesitates between . . . two constructions”
• observing that lenity applies “in cases where the [legislature’s] intention is not distinctly perceived,” such that “the mind balances and hesitates between . . . two constructions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).