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Brazilton KS | As stated in the appeals court opinion cited ...(the court) "must assume the amendments made by the general assembly are purposeful, rather then unnecessary." Since the annotations clearly showed that the assembly specifically changed the statute, making it read as it does now, rather then as it did previously (which would have left the defendant guilty) I do not see that the judge had any right to rewrite the statute to "correct" it to say what he thought it ought to say. It's his job to apply the law AS WRITTEN as long as it is not in conflict with any superior law.
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