Whether a defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when a court refuses to apply the rule of lenity to an ambiguous sentencing statute and instead resolves the ambiguity under the guise of the absurd-principles doctrine, thereby violating basic rules of statutory construction.

Whether a defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when a court refuses to apply the rule of lenity to an ambiguous sentencing statute and instead resolves the ambiguity under the guise of the absurd-principles doctrine, thereby violating basic rules of statutory construction