People v. Ousley

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a statute providing that “the court on motion of the State shall order that a witness be granted immunity from prosecution” is mandatory even though the statute did not prescribe a consequence for the trial court’s failure to comply with the provision
• noting that \confusion still persists\ post- Robinson
• noting that “confusion persists” post-Robinson
• when the issue is whether the statutory language has the force of a command, the word \shall\ generally indicates the legislature intended to impose a mandatory obligation
• when the issue is whether the statutory language has the force of a command, the word “shall” generally indicates the legislature intended to impose a mandatory obligation
• “by employing certain language in one instance, and entirely different language in another, the legislature indicated that different results were intended”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).