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Supreme Court of Florida· 7/12/2001

Seagrave v. State

Citations

  • 802 So. 2d 281
  • 2001 WL 776269

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 question presented— which was subsequently decided on the merits —concerning how \sexual contact\ should be interpreted for the imposition of victim-injury points was certified to this Court as a matter of great public importance
  • “Florida’s well-settled rule of statutory construction [is] that the legislature is presumed to know the existing law when a statute is enacted . . . .”
  • trial court properly scored victim injury for lewd and lascivious assault count upon a child where defendant opened victim’s legs and started to pull down her bathing suit and shorts
  • “[I]t is a basic principle of statutory construction that courts ‘are not at liberty to add words to statutes that were not placed there by the Legislature.’” (citations omitted)
  • \[I]t is a basic principle of statutory construction that courts 'are not at liberty to add words to statutes that were not placed there by the Legislature.' \ (quoting Hayes v. State , 750 So.2d 1 , 4 (Fla. 1999) )
  • \[I]t is a basic principle of statutory construction that courts 'are not at liberty to add words to statutes that were not placed there by the Legislature.' \ (quoting Hayes v. State , 750 So.2d 1 , 4 (Fla. 1999) )

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Judges: Pariente

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