United States v. Melvin A. Slawik, and Bruce A. Uffelman

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• distinguishing questions involving ambiguous terms from those involving “terms of art” or “words of common currency” in a given context
• petit jury should not be permitted “to resolve not only ambiguity of the interrogator’s question and the defendant’s response, but also the ambiguity of the grand jury’s understanding of both question and response.”

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