Legal Opinion
United States v. Nicholas J. Cicco Vincent Tabbachino
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 12, 1991No. 90-5947PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
STAPLETON, Circuit Judge:
I
The United States appeals from an order acquitting the defendants on two counts of a multicount indictment after a jury had returned guilty verdicts as to those counts. The district court ruled that, as applied to the indictment before it, 18 U.S.C. § 666 was ambiguous. It applied the rule of lenity and concluded that defendants’ conduct was outside the ambit of the statute. Alternatively, the court ruled that the government’s interpretation of § 666 was unconstitutionally vague. We have jurisdiction over the government’s appeal from the district…
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