Department of Corrections v. Derry

How courts have described this case

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• construing “resided” or “resident” as equivalent of “domiciled” or “domiciliary” for purposes of statutory residency prerequisite to run for public office from a particular geographic district
• “This is in accord with our decisions generally that the words “resided” or “resident” in various constitutional and statutory provisions mean “domiciled” or “domiciliary” unless a contrary intent is shown.”
• “ ‘A person may have several places of abode or dwelling’ ”
• “Evidence that a person registered or voted is … ordinarily persuasive when the question of domicile is at issue,” and actual residence, coupled with voter registration, “clearly create[s] a presumption that [the person] was domiciled” there
• “The brief period ... during which Roberts spent most of his nights ... [outside his previously established domicile] does not, under the circumstances, show an abandonment of domicile.... It was due to relationship problems with his girlfriend rather than a desire to” change domicile
• \`A person may have several places of abode or dwelling'\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).