State v. Langlands

How courts have described this case

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

• construing Georgia felon-in-possession statute not to encompass Pennsylvania manslaughter conviction classified as a misdemeanor in Pennsylvania
• construing Georgia felon-in-possession statute not to encompass Pennsylvania manslaughter conviction classified as a misdemeanor in Pennsylvania
• explaining, in felon-in-possession case, “[legislative] silence creates an ambiguity, in that a person of ordinary intelligence could fail to appreciate that the definition was meant to look past the treatment given a criminal offense by an out-of-state jurisdiction”
• explaining, in felon-in- possession case, “[legislative] silence creates an ambiguity, in that a person of ordinary intelligence could fail to appreciate that the definition was meant to look past the treatment given a criminal offense by an out- of-state jurisdiction”
• explaining, in felon-in- possession case, “[legislative] silence creates an ambiguity, in that a person of ordinary intelligence could fail to appreciate that the definition was meant to look past the treatment given a criminal offense by an out- of-state jurisdiction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).