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Supreme Court of Florida· 10/17/2002

State v. Goode

Citations

  • 830 So. 2d 817
  • 2002 WL 31317996

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that time limit for bringing a defendant to trial in a Jimmy Ryce civil commitment proceeding was mandatory but not jurisdictional
  • stating that \this secondary probable cause determination was apparently intended by the Legislature to be a fallback procedure for persons who were entitled to release from prison but still had not been brought to trial\
  • \[I]t appears that the Legislature intended that the State would initiate commitment proceedings while the inmate is still incarcerated.\ (citing § 394.915(1), Fla. Stat. (1999))
  • “[A] basic rule of statutory construction provides that the Legislature does not intend to enact useless provisions, and courts should avoid readings that would render part of a statute meaningless.”
  • “As a fundamental rule of statutory construction, ‘courts should avoid readings that would render part of a statute meaningless.’ ” (quoting Forsythe v. Longboat Key Beach Erosion Control Dist., 604 So.2d 452, 456 (Fla. 1992))
  • “In addition to the statute’s plain language, a basic rule of statutory construction provides that the Legislature does not intend to enact useless provisions, and courts should avoid readings that would render part of a statute meaningless.”

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Judges: Per Curiam

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