United States v. Michele Farmer

How courts have described this case

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• noting that when a question is arguably ambiguous, a defendant’s “understanding of the question is for the jury to resolve in the first instance”
• “[I]n most instances, the meaning of a prosecutor’s question and the truthfulness of a defendant’s answer are best left to the jury.”
• “Fundamental ambiguity is the exception, not the rule.”
• “A question is fundamentally ambiguous when it is not a phrase with a meaning about which men of ordinary intellect could agree, nor one which could be used with mutual understanding by a questioner and answerer unless it were defined at the time it were sought and offered as testimony.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).