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This is likely due to law getting far more specific over the decades, with less room for interpretation.
by sukilot 6y ago
This is likely due to law getting far more specific over the decades, with less room for interpretation.
- jcranmer 6y agoHaving followed a lot of the recent SCOTUS cases, I can say that if you think the law is leaving less room for interpretation nowadays, you are sorely mistaken. Look up the "Armed Career Criminal Act"--it's an example of what seems like it ought to be a simple matter of interpretation (look! it defines "violent felon"!) into a headache (okay, the person has to have committed a crime whose state-level common-law interpretation in 1984 had to have required at least this much force, and I'm sure I'm still missing some details there).