State of Iowa v. Patience Paye

How courts have described this case

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

• “When the same term appears multiple times in the same statute, it should have the same meaning each time.”
• “When the same term appears multiple times in the same statute, it should have the same meaning each time.”
• This Court upheld the trial court’s denial of the defendant’s request for a hearing because permitting him to attack his prior “sworn testimony would allow him to benefit from perjury . . . [and] to countenance a fraud upon the [c]ourt.”
• applying the absurd results doctrine in interpreting a criminal statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).