Vanvorst v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding it 30 was not error where the officer did not express an opinion as to guilt but explained he did not believed the defendant’s statement
• “In construing statutes, we do not simply consult dictionaries and interpret words in a vacuum. Dictionaries, after all, do not tell us what words mean, only what words can mean, depending on their context and the particular manner in which they are used.” (Emphasis in original.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).