Latray v. State

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing claim for merger based on fundamental fairness despite the failure to raise it at sentencing
• observing that the rule of lenity “is purely a question of reading legislative intent” and that if the legislature “intended two crimes arising out of a single act to be punished separately, we defer to that legislated choice” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• observing that the rule of lenity \is purely a question of reading legislative intent” and that if the legislature \intended two crimes arising out of a single act to be punished separately, we defer to that legislated choice” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• If the Court is “uncertain as to what the Legislature intended” with regard to separate or single punishments, “we turn to the so-called ‘Rule of Lenity,’ by which we give the defendant the benefit of the doubt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).