How have courts interpreted language in criminal and civil laws?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Pennington, 221 Cal.Rptr.3d 448, 3 Cal.5th 786, 400 P.3d 14 (Cal. 2017):
us to give a narrow interpretation to ambiguous language defining a criminal offense or the penalties to which an offender will be subject. (See, e.g., People v. Avery (2002) 27 Cal.4th 49, 58, 115 Cal.Rptr.2d 403, 38 P.3d 1.) Civil laws, by contrast, are often
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