 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1980 - 1224 pages
...overbreadth of ยง 5 (a). A It is settled that, as a matter of due process, a criminal statute that "fails to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute," United States v. Harris*, 347 US 612, 617 (1954), or is so indefinite that "it encourages... | |
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...The "void for vagueness" doctrine is more generally applied in criminal cases where a statute fails to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden by statute. Jordan v. De George, 341 US 223, 230 (1951) ; United States v. Harris* et al., 347 US 612,... | |
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The constitutional requirement of definiteness is violated by a criminal statute that fails to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute. 
