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Which of the following is not a position taken by Justice Scalia, in his dissent in Smith v. United States (our first main case, on sentence enhancement)?
a. Thought experiments may supply strong evidence of the ordinary meaning of statutory words or phrases.
b. The meaning of a statutory word or phrase is limited to those applications that thelegislature actually foresaw and particularly intended when it enacted the statute.
c. Under the rule of lenity, ambiguities in criminal statute should be resolved infavor of the defendant.
d. Because they are likely to be a contextual, dictionary definitions of statutory words or phrases may not supply strong evidence of those words’ or phrases’ ordinarymeaning in the context of the statute.e. When interpreting a statute, a court should give nontechnical words or phrasestheir ordinary meaning.
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