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is a red herring. Also, the canon of constitutional avoidance does not apply here because the CVRA is plain and unambiguous. See United States v. Stevens 559 U.S. 460, 481, 130 S. Ct 1577, 1591-92, 176 L.Ed.2d 435 (2010) (providing that courts cannot "rely upon the canon of construction that 'ambigu

st an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information." Webster :r New International, supra, at 1987. Moreover, the law is clear, at least for Sixth Amendment right-to-counsel purposes, that a "prosecution" doe

opinion invokes the canon of constitutional avoidance, it does not apply here because there is no ambiguity in the CVRA text. See United States v. Stevens. 559 U.S. 460, 481, 130 S. Ct. 1577. 1591-92. 176 L.Ed.2d 435 (2010) (providing that courts cannot 'rely upon the canon of construction that 'ambig

der before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or govemment, as by indictment or information." Prosecution, Webster's New International Dictionary (2d ed. 1944). Moreover, the law is clear, at least for Sixth Amendment right-to- counsel purposes, that a "prosecuti

t al. (sadomasochistic sex trafficking) Consultant to the defense in U.S. v. David H. Brooks (white collar crimes) Consultant to the plaintiff in Stevens v. U.S. (anthrax attack) Consultant to the United States Attorney's Office, Tucson, AZ, in U.S. v. Jared Loughner (Tucson mass murder and assassi

f Sexual Assault Evidence. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, 1985, pp. 179- 187. (Reprinted, with revisions, in Ben-Aron MH, Hucker SJ, Webster CD (Eds.): Clinical Criminology: The Assessment and Treatment of Criminal Behaviour, pp. 207-219. Toronto: Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Universi

r be reviewed de novo, it determined that appellate courts thereafter would apply a "reasonableness" standard of review. According to Justice Stevens, the Court "expressly equated" reasonableness review "with the old abuse-of-discretion standard used to review sentencing departures." 1?i

ionary cited by the Supreme Court in Raich only refers to "the production, distri- bution, and consumption of commodities," more recent versions of Webster's have ad- ded "services" to the defmition. See, e.g.. Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 364 (10th ed.I993) (defining "economics" as the soc