Cully v. Ricottone

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the rule of lenity applies to “statutes imposing criminal liability”
• holding that the rule of lenity applies to “statutes imposing criminal liability”
• recognizing the “time-honored rule that criminal liability cannot be expanded beyond express legislative terms by construction or implication”
• declining “to confíne the reach of [a] statute in ... a narrow fashion” where the legislature fails to use “words of limitation”
• noting in our interpretation of statutes we “decline to narrow a broad legislative formulation by implying or constructing limitations not present in the statute and undercutting its obvious public purpose”
• noting the aider and abettor swerved toward an officer following a carjacking, suggesting he “was involved in the carjacking because he was trying to help the principal carjackers escape the scene of the crime”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).