State v. Catanio

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that this court \must attribute the plain meaning to a statute that is not ambiguous\
• recognizing that this court \must attribute the plain meaning to a statute that is not ambiguous\
• stating that lewdness with a child under 14 years of age is a specific intent crime
• explaining that lewdness with a child does not require force or violence
• \An ambiguity arises where the statutory language lends itself to two or more reasonable interpretations.\
• \We agree with the California courts interpretation of what must be proven to establish the elements of the crime of lewdness.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).