State v. Barragan-Sierra

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• explaining courts “employ a common sense approach” to interpreting a statute, “reading the statute in terms of its stated purpose and the system of related statutes of which it forms a part, while taking care to avoid absurd results”
• when construing statutory language, “[w]e employ a common sense approach, reading the statute in terms of its stated purpose and the system of related statutes of which it forms a part, while taking care to avoid absurd results”
• Courts “employ a common sense approach” in interpreting a statute, “reading the statute in terms of its stated purpose and the system of related statutes of which it forms a part, while taking care to avoid absurd results.”
• “We employ a common sense approach [when construing statutory language], reading the statute in terms of its stated purpose and the system of related statutes of which it forms a part, while taking care to avoid absurd results.”
• defendant prosecuted for conspiring with others to smuggle himself into country
• defendant prosecuted for conspiring with others to smuggle himself into country

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).