People v. Fosnaugh

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “the word ‘should’ can, in certain contexts, connote an obligatory effect”
• stating that “the word ‘should’ can, in certain contexts, connote an obligatory effect”
• agreeing that ‘must’ is a mandatory term
• when words with similar meanings are used in the same statute, it is presumed that the Legislature intended to distinguish between the terms
• “[T]he word ‘should’ can, in certain contexts, connote an obligatory effect . . . .”
• “[T]he word ‘must’ is mandatory language . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).