United States v. Morris O'Neal Davis

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• holding that multiple sentences may be imposed for “simultaneous possession” of different controlled substances under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)
• arguing that punishing simultaneous possessions as one crime would limit judges to “the punishment set by statute for possession of only one drug”
• \the `touchstone' of the rule of lenity is `statutory ambiguity'\ and should not be utilized \to `destroy the spirit and force of the law which the legislature intended to enact'\

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