Taylor v. Cruikshank

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the rule may apply “in a criminal case” involving an ambiguous statute such that doubts of statutory construction are resolved in favor of the defendant
• court will endeavor to avoid construing statutory subsections as redundant or superfluous
• “the best evidence” of legislature’s intent “is the statutory language”
• “the best evidence” of legislature’s intent “is the statutory language”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).