State v. Wachsmuth

How courts have described this case

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• noting that rules should not be read to “require a narrow technical meaning be given words in question in such blatant disregard of their context as to frustrate the obvious intent of the legislature”
• noting that statutes should not be read to “require a narrow technical meaning be given words in question in such blatant disregard of their context as to frustrate the obvious intent of the legislature”
• avoiding an \unreasonable\ interpretation that would require someone to do the \impossible\
• courts should not interpret statutes to produce \legally absurd and physically impossible\ results

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).