State v. Nankervis

How courts have described this case

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

• questioning whether defendants who are convicted for trafficking methamphetamine and provide substantial assistance to the State should be considered similarly situated to those defendants who are convicted of trafficking methamphetamine but are unable to provide substantial assistance
• “[T]he rule of lenity comes into play only to resolve ambiguities[.]” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “[A] specific statute will prevail over a general statute, absent any indication of a contrary legislative intent.”
• “In our search for the meaning of a particular statutory provision, we look not only to the words of that provision, but we consider its legal context as well.”
• “Under the rational basis test, a court will uphold the statute if, under any conceivable set of facts, the classifications drawn in the statute bear a rational relationship to a legitimate end of government not prohibited by the Constitution.”
• “The rule of lenity comes into play only to resolve ambiguities[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).