What is the test for "rule of lenity"?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Thompson, 2016 N.Y. Slip Op. 00997, 26 N.Y.3d 678, 27 N.Y.S.3d 425, 47 N.E.3d 704 (N.Y. 2016):
rule of lenity (People v. Golb, 23 N.Y.3d 455, 468, 991 N.Y.S.2d 792, 15 N.E.3d 805 [2014], rearg. denied 24 N.Y.3d 932, 993 N.Y.S.2d 543, 17 N.E.3d 1139 [2014], cert. denied 574 U.S. , 135 S.Ct. 1009, 190 L.Ed.2d 839 [2015] [internal quotation marks omitted] ).
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