Jorge Sarmiento v. City of Miami Beach Johns Eastern Co.

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• holding that because appeal regarding whether defendant was properly sentenced as a recidivist is a question of law, we review the trial court’s decision de novo
• holding that because appeal regarding whether defendant was properly sentenced as a recidivist is a question of law, we review the trial court's decision de novo
• noting that when a statute uses the word \or\ disjunctively, it is interpreted as expanding the statute's coverage rather than limiting it
• applying the rule of lenity to ambiguous language in the statute that governed whether the defendant was subject to being sentenced as a recidivist
• applying the rule of lenity to ambiguous language in the statute that governed whether the defendant was subject to being sentenced as a recidivist
• \[W]e must construe statutes to give sensible and intelligent effect to all of their provisions and to refrain from any interpretation which renders any part of the statutes meaningless.\

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