Wayne Glenn Knutson v. Lou v. Brewer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting that defendant had right to expect to be convicted of lesser crime only, finding it “significant that the issue of construction involved here is not the drawing of a line between legal conduct and illegal conduct”
• rejecting argument that defendant had due process right to expect to be convicted of lesser crime only, finding it “significant that the issue of construction involved here is not the drawing of a line between legal conduct and illegal conduct”
• “Obviously the act of sodomy was, as a matter of fact, a ‘thing of value’ to [the defendant], else he would not have demanded it.”
• \the Due Process Clause does not automatically guarantee that a defendant will receive the benefit of the narrowest possible construction of a previously unexplicated phrase in a state criminal statute\
• “the Due Process Clause does not automatically guarantee that a defendant will receive the benefit of the narrowest possible construction of a previously unexplicated phrase in a state criminal statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).