Bilke v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that we apply the plain meaning of a statute “unless [it] would lead to impossible or absurd results”
• “In determining the legislatures intent, we initially look to the language of the statute itself.”
• in matters of statutory construction, court must assign to each word its \usual and commonly understood meaning unless the legislature clearly intended\ otherwise
• plain language of a statute controls if it is clear and would not lead to impossible or absurd results
• “We will not rewrite statutes to effectuate a meaning different than the one the legislature intended.”
• the same rules of statutory construction apply in the interpretation of a procedural rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).