What is the state of the law in the context of statutory ambiguity?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from United States v. Dicristina, Docket No. 12-3720 (2nd Cir. 2013):
quotation marks omitted); see also Bifulco v. United States, 447 U.S. 381, 387 (1980) ("[T]he touchstone of the rule of lenity is statutory ambiguity." (internal quotation marks omitted)).
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