State of Florida v. Zachariah Dorsett

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• stating that a court- should look primarily at a statute’s plain meaning to determine legislative intent and that a court should only apply rules of statutory construction to determine legislative intent where the plain language of the statute is unclear or ambiguous
• stating that a court should look primarily at a statute's plain meaning to determine legislative intent and that a court should only apply rules of statutory - 16 - construction to determine legislative intent where the plain language of the statute is unclear or ambiguous
• “The interpretation of a statute is a purely legal matter and therefore subject to the de novo standard of review.”
• “The interpretation of a statute is a purely legal matter and therefore subject to the de novo standard of review.”
• “If jury instructions, viewed as a whole, fairly state the applicable law to the jury, the failure to give particular instructions will not be error.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).