People v. B.L.S.

How courts have described this case

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• “[a] statute is ambiguous when it is capable of being understood by reasonably well-informed persons in two or more different senses”
• habitual juvenile offenders are entitled to receive credit for time spent in custody prior to sentencing
• \A statute is ambiguous when it is capable of being understood by reasonably well-informed persons in two or more different senses\
• when a statute is ambiguous, it is appropriate to examine legislative history or other statutory aids
• an incarcerated juvenile’s liberty is restrained just as effectively as that of an adult offender
• when a statute is ambiguous, it is appropriate to examine legislative history or other statutory aids

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).