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· 11/1/2006

State v. MacElman

Citations

  • 910 A.2d 1267
  • 154 N.H. 304
  • 2006 N.H. LEXIS 160

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that vagueness may invalidate a statute for either of two independent reasons: (1) it fails to provide people of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to understand what conduct it prohibits; or (2
  • explaining that vagueness may invalidate a statute for either of two independent reasons: (1) it fails to provide people of ordinary 6 intelligence a reasonable opportunity to understand what conduct it prohibits; or (2
  • rejecting defendant’s as-applied vagueness challenge where the charged conduct was “clearly within the realm of conduct proscribed by the statute”
  • explaining that we review questions of constitutional law de novo
  • describing the defendant’s as-applied vagueness challenge as requiring the court to “determine whether the statute provided her with a reasonable opportunity to know that her particular conduct was proscribed by the statute”

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Judges: Duggan, Broderick, Dalianis, Galway, Hicks

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