Morgal Et Ux. v. Pinal County Board of Supervisors

How later courts describe this case

• "[S]elf-serving statements by a defendant that his conviction was constitutionally infirm are insufficient to overcome the presumption of regularity accorded state convictions."
• case analyzing validity of state court conviction used in' sentence enhancement and recognizing that presumption of regularity exists even when no transcript of proceedings is available
• “If, after reference to the language, structure and legislative history of a statute, the intended scope of the statute remains ambiguous, the rule of lenity will apply.”