Commonwealth v. Marrone

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that we “will not interpret a . . . criminal statute so as to increase the penalty that it places on an individual when such an interpretation can be based on no more than a guess as to what [the Legislature] intended”
• refusing to interpret word “mandatory” in G. L. c. 94C, § 32E [c] [3], inserted by St. 1980, c. 436, § 4, that set forth “a mandatory term of fifteen years in the state prison,” as meaning “mandatory minimum”
• plain omissions in the law should not be supplied by court in construing and interpreting statute
• portion of statute requiring “mandatory term of fifteen years” held invalid as violation of G. L. c. 279, § 24
• requiring criminal statutes to be construed strictly

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