Phelps v. Com.

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• concluding that if the General Assembly had intended to make the statute at issue narrower it could have done so
• concluding that if the General Assembly had intended to make the statute at issue narrower, it would have done so
• finding that the use of the indefinite article “any” in “any person” as found in Code § 46.2-817(B), interchangeable with the indefinite article “a,” encompasses the entire universe of people
• noting that \a\ may mean \any\ or \each\
• interpreting the phrase “a person” in Code § 46.2-817(B) and noting that the “ordinary meaning of the word ‘a’ means ‘any’ or ‘each,’” and that therefore the term “‘a person’ . . . encompasses the entire universe of people” (quoting Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (1993))

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