Ivan Jermaine Wims v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the maxim noscitur a sociis “tells us that the meaning of an unclear word may be clarified by the meaning of other words used in the same context”
• explaining the noscitur a sociis textual canon, whereby the meaning of an unclear word may be clarified by other words in context
• explaining noscitur a sociis textual canon, whereby the meaning of an unclear word may be clarified by other words in context
• presuming that legislature was aware of existing case law
• applying the noscitur a sociis canon of construction, under which \the meaning of an unclear word may be clarified by the meaning of other words used in the same context\
• presuming that legislature was aware of existing case law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).