Rewis v. United States

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Rewis v. United States (401 U.S. 808, 812) was a 1971 case involving an illegal gambling syndicate. The U.S. Supreme Court emphasized that "ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity."