Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 7/9/2012

Commonwealth v. Williamson

Citations

462 Mass. 676
971 N.E.2d 250
2012 WL 2620541
2012 Mass. LEXIS 653

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construing phrase \shall . . . be subject to community parole supervision for life\ [CPSL] to afford sentencing judge discretion whether to impose CPSL
“Where the Legislature used different language in different paragraphs of the same statute, it intended different meanings”
provision’s “language, on its face, requires the mandatory imposition of CPSL for those convicted under [it]”
canon that different terms are presumed to have different meanings applies to terms used in same statute
\[W]e start with the language of the statute itself and presume ... that the Legislature intended what the words of the statute say.\ [quotation omitted]
“The use of slightly different terms in multiple statutes does not create a presumption of different meanings.”

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Judges: Lenk

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