Reitz v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• the rule of lenity “applies only where there is ambiguity in or conflict between the statutes.”
• “ ‘rule of lenity’ applies only where there is ambiguity in or conflict between * * * statutes”
• “[w]hile we are required to strictly construe statutes defining criminal penalties against the state, see R.C. 2901.04(A), this ‘rule of lenity’ applies only where there is ambiguity in or conflict between the statutes”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).