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U.S. v. Parks, No. 07-3944 (6th Cir.) (583 F.3d 923) (October 16, 2009) (Judge Gilbert S. Merritt)

Loaded on Sept. 1, 2009 published in Punch and Jurists September 21, 2009
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Rule of Lenity.

As this case shows, the patchwork of American criminal laws have become a Byzantine maze of unparalleled proportions that sometimes defies comprehension. In this case, the Sixth Circuit addressed a complicated and counter-intuitive provision known as the Federal Bank Robbery Statute (“FBRS”), which is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 2113. ...

 

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