United States v. David Lawrence Wilson, AKA David v. Hunter

How courts have described this case

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• “If no objection or only partial objection is made, the 11 district court judge reviews those unobjected portions for clear error.”
• “The rule [of lenity] applies to substantive, as well as sentencing, statutes.”
• “[The rule of lenity] is not to be invoked lightly. It is not applicable unless there is a grievous ambiguity or uncertainty in the language and structure of the Act.” (internal quotation marks omitted) (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).