State v. Provenzano

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that in any endeavor involving statutory construction, an important maxim to consider is that “a statute will not be construed to lead to absurd results. All rules of construction are subordinate to that obvious proposition.”
• ruling that in any endeavor involving statutory construction, an important maxim to consider is that \a statute will not be construed to lead to absurd results. All rules of construction are subordinate to that obvious proposition.\
• “It is axiomatic that a statute will not be construed to lead to absurd results.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).