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· 1/30/2019

Hilton Williams v. State of Florida

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  • observing that a court should not “mechanistically pars[e] down each word of the statute to its dictionary definition, no matter the resulting reading that would give the law”
  • Deputy U.S. Marshal testified victim was assisting him in performing official duty of detaining federal prisoner before sentencing

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