California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Solis, 200 Cal.Rptr.3d 463, 245 Cal.App.4th 1099 (Cal. App. 2016):
Although we look first at the words of a statute, we do not consider the statutory language in isolation; rather, we read the statute "as a whole, harmonizing the various elements by considering each clause and section in the context of the overall statutory framework." (People v. Jenkins (1995) 10 Cal.4th 234, 246, 40 Cal.Rptr.2d 903, 893 P.2d 1224.) We construe all parts of a statute together, without according undue importance to a single or
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