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

The question presented is: 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. LIST OF ALL PROCEEDINGS The following proceedings are directly related to this case within the meaning of Rule 14.1(b)(iii): • People v. Hoffman, 2025 IL 130344. Docket No. 130344, Supreme Court of Illinois. Order denying petition for rehearing, entered September 22, 2025. • People v. Koffman, 2025 IL 130344 (O'Brien, J., dissenting, joined by Neville and Rockford, JJ.). Docket No. 130344, Supreme Court of Illinois. Opinion reversing in part the Appellate Court's order, entered June 26, 2025. • .People v. Hoffman, 2023 IL App (2d) 230067 (Jorgensen, J., specially concurring). Docket No. 2-23-0067, Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District. Opinion and order vacating in part the judgment below and remanding for a new sentencing hearing, entered December 21, 2023. • People v. Hoffman, No. 18-CF-395, Circuit Court of the Twenty -Third Judicial Circuit, Kendall County, Illinois. Judgment of conviction entered February 24, 2023. 11