Mary Stamos v. Houston Independent School District

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where “neither the jury instructions nor the verdict form required the jury to specify which act it chose to reach its verdict” on the elevated charge, we must “assume the jury based its verdict on” the act that was separately criminalized
• “Principles of lenity require us to interpret [an] ambiguous verdict in favor of [the defendant].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).