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· 6/25/2009

Dubois v. Abrahamson

Citations

  • 214 P.3d 586
  • 2009 Colo. App. LEXIS 1181
  • 2009 WL 1798605

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[W]e may not read additional terms into, or modify, the plain language of a statute.”
  • “[W]e may not read additional terms into, or modify, the plain language of a statute . . . .”
  • court will not read into statute a limitation the plain language does not suggest
  • court will not read into statute a limitation the plain language does not suggest
  • “[T]he General Assembly could have drafted section 16-22-102(3) to define ‘convicted’ as ‘having received, and failed to successfully complete, a 5 deferred judgment and sentence,’” but it did not.
  • appellate courts may not read additional terms into, or modify, a statute’s explicit language

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Judges: Lichtenstein, Taubman, Roman

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