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· 11/5/1973

Wainwright v. Stone

Citations

  • 414 U.S. 21
  • 94 S. Ct. 190
  • 38 L. Ed. 2d 179
  • 1973 U.S. LEXIS 169

How courts have described this case

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  • observing that the “judgment of federal courts as to the vagueness” of a statute “must be made in light” of prior judicial constructions of the statute
  • \(W)e must take the statute as though it read precisely as the highest court of the state has interpreted it.\

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Judges: Per Curiam

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