Rodricks: In Mosby case, even ‘men of ordinary intellect’ can understand ‘adverse financial consequences’

Pardon me for saying so, but I don’t see what’s “fundamentally ambiguous” about the phrase “adverse financial consequences.” I get exactly what that means, and I attended neither Oxford nor Cambridge. Lawyers for the indicted Baltimore State’s Attorney, Marilyn Mosby (Boston College Law School, 2005), claim she shouldn’t be prosecuted for perjury because of those three words in the federal law she allegedly violated. They say “adverse financial consequences” is “not a phrase with a meaning about which men of ordinary intellect could agree.”