Mason v. People

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that if the General Assembly intended a statute to achieve the same result as another statute, it would have used similar terms in both statutes
• courts presume that if the General Assembly intended a statute to achieve a particular result, it would have employed terminology clearly expressing that intent
• if the General Assembly intended the statute to achieve a certain result, it would have employed terminology clearly expressing that intent, as it has done in other circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).