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Hawaii Supreme Court· 5/29/2008

State v. Bayly

Citations

  • 185 P.3d 186
  • 118 Haw. 1
  • 2008 Haw. LEXIS 117

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that \[s]tatutory interpretation is a question of law reviewable de novo\ (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
  • stating that the rule of lenity \makes it more appropriate to adopt a less expansive meaning of the term `collision'\
  • stating that the rule of lenity “makes it more appropriate to adopt a less expansive meaning of the term ‘collision’”
  • “It is a basic rule of statutory interpretation that provisions of a penal statute will be accorded a limited and reasonable interpretation ... in order to preserve its overall purpose and to avoid absurd results.”
  • “[W]here a criminal statute is ambiguous, it is to be interpreted according to the rule of lenity. Under the rule of lenity, the statute must be strictly construed against the government and in favor of the accused.”
  • turning to canons of statutory construction to interpret ambiguous statute

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Judges: Moon, Levinson, Acoba, Duffy, Nakayama

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Cites

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