Brown v. Woodard

How courts have described this case

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

• “we may presume that a word used in different parts of the same statutory scheme has the same meaning”
• prior to defendant’s arrest, grand jury subpoenaed defendant to testify during investigation of possible illegal police officer conduct
• “in the absence of persuasive evidence to the contrary, we may presume that a word used in different parts of the same statutory scheme has the same meaning”
• “if the legislature had wanted to prohibit the state from introducing a witness’ testimony before an investigatory grand jury in the state’s case-in-chief against that witness, it easily could have done so”
• “in the absence of persuasive evidence to the contrary, we may presume that a word used in different parts of the same statutory scheme has the same meaning”
• ‘‘in the absence of persuasive evidence to the contrary, we may presume that a word used in different parts of the same statutory scheme has the same meaning’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).