United States v. Jay Cohen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that sports betting was \illegal\ under section 1084(b) where it was not a crime but was generally prohibited by law and the state constitution
• observing that, in order to conduct a Rule 15 deposition, “[a] movant must show that ... the prospective witness is unavailable for trial”
• transmitting bets over the internet violated the statute because it involved transmission to and from customers of betting information
• finding the doctrine to have “little resolving power in particular cases” and to “serve[] mainly to divert attention from clear analysis of the mens rea requirements of conspiracy” (citation omitted)
• “The rule of lenity applies where there exists a grievous ambiguity in a statute”

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