Second Circuit· 9/26/2000

Lurie v. Wittner

Citations

228 F.3d 113
2000 WL 1399149

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noting that “[t]here is no [United States] Supreme Court precedent requiring that an advice-of-counsel defense be allowed in state court; indeed, the situations in which the advice-of-counsel defense may be employed are severely limited”
rejecting government’s claim that “rule of lenity is a statutory presumption lacking a constitutional dimension” inasmuch as rule protects defendant’s constitutional right to fair warning
“The rule of lenity is a canon of statutory construction, not in itself federal law.”
“The rule of lenity is a canon of statutory construction, not in itself a federal law.”

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Judges: Jacobs, Kearse, Pooler

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